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wind tunnel

[wind] / wɪnd /
NOUN
testing structure
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That geography turns the valley into a natural wind tunnel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2026

Just over four years after starting that first placement at Williams, Sullivan is now a full-time wind tunnel systems engineer.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

It is the force that builds the wind tunnel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

He also created a tiny wind tunnel for some of the experiments, so that the physicists could analyze the role of ambient breeze in the worm's target success rate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025

Beginning in the Administration Building, with a single wind tunnel, the lab grew until space limits pushed it to expand to the west onto several large properties tracing their provenance to colonial-era plantations.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly



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