Wind-driven

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Occurring with the presence of a wind, although a rotary wind-driven ventilator on a vehicle can also be activated by movement of the vehicle. not-comparable

    "The air is circulated—up from the floor and down again through the ice-bunkers, by revolving fans connected with wind-driven rotors on the roofs."

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"In temperatures that can drop below -20 degrees Fahrenheit, along a route occasionally blocked by wind-driven ice dunes, a hundred miles from any other people, a team led by two NASA scientists will survey an unexplored stretch of Antarctic ice."

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