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Definition of Antitrades
1. Noun. Wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds.
Definition of Antitrades
1. Noun. (plural of antitrade) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Antitrades
1. antitrade [n] - See also: antitrade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antitrades
Literary usage of Antitrades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles and Methods of Teaching Geography by Frederick Leopold Holtz (1913)
"of trades and antitrades; or to unequal absorption and radiation of heat by land
and water in different seasons (monsoons), or night and day (land and sea ..."
2. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"The exact latitude, however, at which the antitrades move directly poleward
depends upon the position of the thermal equator and therefore varies with the ..."
3. New Physical Geography by Ralph Stockman Tarr (1908)
"(E) antitrades. — The air that rises in the belt of calms Hows northward and
southward, high above the earth (Fig. i r'U06). Turned by the influence of ..."
4. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"Between this belt and the equator there is a regular circulation of air equatorward
below (the trade winds) and poleward above (the antitrades) ; both ..."
5. The Atmosphere; Its Characteristics and Dynamics by Frederick Joaquim Barbosa Cordeiro (1910)
"We shall call the incoming lower currents the trades; the outgoing upper currents
the antitrades. Just beyond 10° Lat. we should find the trade decreasing ..."
6. An Introduction to Physical Geography by Grove Karl Gilbert, Albert Perry Brigham (1902)
"The general circulation of the atmosphere. should blow directly toward the doldrum
belt, and the antitrades should blow directly away from it. ..."
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