MEANING
Describing a wind flowing downhill under gravity, typically as cold dense air descends.
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- katabatic wind
- katabatic flow
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A katabatic wind descended from the glacier.
The camp stood directly in the path of the katabatic flow.
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- katabatic
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a wind classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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