wind power

See also: windpower

English

Noun

wind power (uncountable)

1. (physics) Power of the wind.
2. Such power harnessed as a power source, especially as applied to a category of electrical generation.

Synonyms

• wind energy (broadly synonymous despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit))

Hypernyms

• energy
  • renewable energy

Related terms

• windfall
• wind farm
• windmill / wind mill
• wind park

Translations

power harnessed from the wind

• Catalan: energia eòlica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風能 (zh), 风能 (zh) (fēngnéng), 風力 (zh), 风力 (zh) (fēnglì)

• Danish: vindkraft (da) c, vindenergi (da) c
• Dutch: windenergie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ventoenergio
• Estonian: tuuleenergia
• Faroese: vindorka f
• Finnish: tuulivoima (fi), tuulisähkö (fi)
• French: énergie éolienne f
• Georgian: ქარის ენერგია (karis energia)
• German: Windenergie (de) f
• Greek: αιολική ενέργεια f (aiolikí enérgeia)
• Icelandic: vindorka (is) f
• Italian: energia eolica f
• Japanese: 風力 (ja) (ふうりょく, fūryoku)
• Mongolian: салхины эрчим хүч (salxiny erčim xüč)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vindkraft m or f

  Nynorsk: vindkraft f

• Polish: aeroenergetyka (pl) f, energia wiatru f
• Portuguese: energia eólica f
• Russian: эне́ргия ве́тра f (enɛ́rgija vétra)
• Spanish: energía eólica (es)
• Swedish: vindkraft (sv) c

Further reading

• wind power on Wikipedia.Wikipedia