air resistance

English

Noun

air resistance (usually uncountable, plural air resistances)

(physics) The action of friction that slows something moving through air; drag.

Translations

friction that slows things moving through air

Afrikaans: lugweerstand
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Danish: luftmodstand c
Dutch: luchtweerstand (nl) m
Finnish: ilmanvastus (fi)
French: résistance de l’air f
German: Luftwiderstand m
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Hungarian: légellenállás (hu)
Indonesian: hambatan udara
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Malay: rintangan udara
Norwegian:
Bokmål: luftmotstand m

Nynorsk: luftmotstand m
Polish: opór powietrza m
Portuguese: resistência do ar f
Russian: сопротивле́ние во́здуха n (soprotivlénije vózduxa)
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Swedish: luftmotstånd (sv) n
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Vietnamese: lực cản không khí
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See also

Further reading

“air resistance”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“air resistance” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

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