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buffeting /ˈbʌfɪtɪŋ /noun [mass noun]1The action of buffeting someone or something: the roofs have survived the buffeting of worse winds than this...- Hood down, clever aerodynamic design ensures that the occupants are almost totally protected from wind buffeting, making open air motoring quite practicable, even at this late stage of the year.
- The magnetosphere varies in size and shape, and its outer boundary - the magnetopause - gently undulates like a wave due to buffeting by the solar wind.
- Even with the top down, you get very minimal wind buffeting, enough to tell you that you're driving a convertible, but it won't feel like sitting in the middle of a hurricane.
2 Aeronautics Irregular oscillation of part of an aircraft, caused by turbulence.Mounted close to the wing on modified bomb racks, the tanks caused buffeting and, even more seriously, would not separate cleanly in the event they were dropped....- The buffeting was traced to airflow from the engine nacelles partially blanking out the tail surfaces.
- Aerodynamic forces cause vibrations at the tip of a blade where the effects of transonic speeds cause buffeting and vibration.
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