WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
ge′ostroph′ic wind′,
- Meteorologya wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars. Cf. gradient wind.
- 1915–20
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