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- 1. the cooling effect of wind blowing on a surface: "the wind chill at 70 mph descent would leave every racer needing medical treatment for frostbite"
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Wind chill is the sensation of cold produced by the wind for a given ambient air temperature on exposed skin as the air motion accelerates the rate of heat transfer from the body to the surrounding atmosphere. Its values are always lower than the air temperature in the range where the formula is valid. When the apparent temperature is higher than the air temperature, the heat index is used instead... Wikipedia