"wind speed" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wind speeds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wind speed (plural wind speeds)
  1. (meteorology) The local speed of the wind. Wikipedia link: wind speed Categories (topical): Meteorology, Wind Translations (speed of the wind): vindhastighet [common-gender] (Danish), tuulennopeus (Finnish), Windgeschwindigkeit [feminine] (German), 風速 (fūsoku) (alt: ふうそく) (Japanese), vindhastighet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), viteza vântului [feminine] (Romanian), скорость ветра (skorostʹ vetra) [feminine] (Russian)

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