Associations to the word «Anabatic»
Wiktionary
ANABATIC, adjective. (of a warm air current) rising (up a slope)
ANABATIC, adjective. (medicine) Of or pertaining to anabasis
ANABATIC WIND, noun. (physics) (meteorology) An upslope wind; usually applied only when the wind is blowing up a hill or mountain as a result of local surface heating and apart from the effects of the larger scale circulation; the opposite of katabatic wind. The most common type anabatic is the valley wind.
Dictionary definition
ANABATIC, adjective. Of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope; "an anabatic wind".
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