heat index

English

Etymology

From heat +‎ index

Noun

heat index (plural heat indexes or heat indices)

(US, meteorology) A figure used by American meteorologists to describe the apparent heat felt by a person as the result of a combination of temperature and humidity.

Hypernyms

index

Coordinate terms

humidex (Canadian English)

Translations

figure used to describe the apparent heat felt by a person

German: Hitzeindex m
Romanian: index de căldură

Turkish: ısı indeksi

See also

windchill, windchill factor

References

heat index on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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