Usually means: Direction from which wind originates.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. upwind: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. upwind: Merriam-Webster
  3. upwind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. upwind: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. upwind: Collins English Dictionary
  6. upwind: Vocabulary.com
  7. Upwind, upwind: Wordnik
  8. upwind: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. upwind: Wiktionary
  10. upwind: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. upwind: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. upwind: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. upwind: Dictionary.com
  14. upwind: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. upwind: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Upwind: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. upwind: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. upwind: Rhymezone
  19. Upwind: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. upwind: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. upwind: FreeDictionary.org
  22. upwind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. upwind: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upwind: Encyclopedia

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. upwind: Chapters in the Sky
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Upwind, Upwind: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See upwinding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  exposed to the wind
adverb:  in the direction from which the wind is blowing
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To wind upwards.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To wind up (a mechanism).

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