5 example sentences using windage.
Windage used in a sentence
Windage in a sentence as a noun
And if they get caught in a squall, they simple head the sails into the wind to reduce windage.
Curious to know how they compensate for windage?
Deploy spotter + servo-driven rifle platform, dial in windage, designate target with laser or via screen, point, click, boom.
Rather it's a form of "kentucky windage" to compensate for a system that has a known series of institutional biases across the board.
If it just barely reached the surface then it would experience very little windage, so its path through the ocean would be almost entire driven by currents.
Windage definitions
the retarding force of air friction on a moving object
the space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun
exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance)
the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind