wind power

[ wind ]

/ wɪnd /

power derived from wind: used to generate electricity or mechanical power.

Also called wind energy.

Origin of wind power

First recorded in 1900–05

The prayers moved by wind-power are merely long strips of cloth on which prayers are often printed.

An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet |A. Henry Savage Landor
There is also wind-power, now used to a limited extent by means of wind-mills.

Boys' Second Book of Inventions |Ray Stannard Baker
Wind-power, again, has been to a large extent neglected since the advent of the steam-engine.

Twentieth Century Inventions |George Sutherland
The lack of streams and water-power is thus supplied by air-currents and wind-power.

Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast |Samuel Adams Drake

In no other part of the world is wind-power so extensively used.

Commercial Geography |Jacques W. Redway

wind power

/ (wɪnd) /

power produced from windmills and wind turbines