air resistance

English

Noun

air resistance (usually uncountable, plural air resistances)

1. (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

• fluid dynamics
• terminal velocity
• viscosity

 

Further reading

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