Meanings
plural wind generators
- A wind-driven generator, working on the same principle as a wind turbine but usually on a smaller scale, used for example for charging batteries on sailing boats.
When Kamkwamba stopped going to school because his family could no longer afford the fees, he went to his local library, read up on his science, found a DIY guide to making a wind generator and set about trying to build it. […]
2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSNSynonyms: wind turbine
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA wind-driven generator, working on the same principle as a wind turbine but usually on a smaller scale, used for example for charging batteries on sailing boats.
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Translations
Danish vindgenerator
- vindgeneratorwind-driven generator
German Windgenerator
- Windgeneratorwind-driven generator
Latvian vēja ģenerators
- vēja ģeneratorswind-driven generator
Norwegian Bokmål vindgenerator
- vindgeneratorwind-driven generator
Polish turbina wiatrowa
- turbina wiatrowawind-driven generator
Romanian generator eolian
- generator eolianwind-driven generator
Russian ветроэлектрогенера́тор, ветря́к
- ветроэлектрогенера́тор (vetroelektrogenerátor)wind-driven generator
- ветря́к (vetrják)wind-driven generator
Cite this entry
wind generator. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wind%20generator
“wind generator.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wind%20generator. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wind generator,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wind%20generator.
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