- In meteorology,
prevailing wind in a
region of the Earth's
surface is a
surface wind that
blows predominantly from a
particular direction. The dominant...
- Look up
prevailing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Prevailing may
refer to:
Prevailing winds Prevailing visibility Prevailing wage This disambiguation...
- In
United States government contracting, a
prevailing wage is
defined as the
hourly wage,
usual benefits and overtime, paid to the
majority of workers...
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Prevailing visibility in
aviation is a
measurement of the
greatest distance visible throughout at
least half of the horizon, not
necessarily continuously...
- self-locking nut,
prevailing torque nut,
stiff nut or
elastic stop nut, is a nut that
resists loosening under vibrations and torque.
Prevailing torque nuts...
- The westerlies, anti-trades, or
prevailing westerlies, are
prevailing winds from the west
toward the east in the
middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees...
- See thus
agreed to
integrate diaspora parishes which were
located in
prevailingly Protestant areas,
until then
supervised by the
Roman Catholic Vicariate...
-
Arabic given name
dating to pre-Islamic times,
meaning blood or red.
Prevailingly, the
Islamic given name is most
commonly ****ociated to the
Arabic word...
-
valleys in arid and
semiarid regions in
response to the
direction (s) of
prevailing winds, are
known as lunettes, source-bordering dunes,
bourrelets and clay...
- duration.
Accents that don't
correspond to the
stressed beats of the
prevailing meter are said to be syncopated. For example, in
common time, also called...
