See Also: Relative Wind - Skydiving(gambling)
Relative Work (Rw) - Skydiving(gambling)
Wind Line - Skydiving(gambling)
West Wind, Westerly Wind. - Sailing(gambling)
East Wind, Easterly Wind - Sailing(gambling)
North Wind, Northerly Wind - Sailing(gambling)
South Wind, Southerly Wind - Sailing(gambling)
Tandem Skydiving - Skydiving(gambling)
Formation Skydiving - Skydiving(gambling)
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comet (iou) and Relative Wind - Skydiving (gambling)


comet (iou)



comet noun & adjective. Also cometa. LOE.
[(Old & mod. French comete from) Latin cometa from Greek kometes long-haired (star), from komaein wear the hair long, from kome hair.]
A. noun.
Astronomy. A celestial object that orbits the sun in a highly elliptical path and, when in the vicinity of the sun, usu. has a bright hazy head and a long more diffuse tail. LOE.
Oort comet cloud, Oort's comet cloud: see OORT 2.
b. fig. A portent; a herald. L16.
A card-game ancestral to Newmarket. L17.
Comb.: comet-finder, comet-seeker a telescope of low power and large field of view, used in searching for comets; comet-year: in which a notable comet has appeared.
b. adjective. Designating Wine made in a comet-year, supposed to have superior qualities. M19.
cometary adjective of or pertaining to a comet or comets; like a comet: M17.
co'metic,
co'metical adjectives cometary; fig. blazing; portentous; erratic: M17.

Relative Wind - Skydiving (gambling)


The direction from which the supporting column of air is coming. When you exit an aircraft that is traveling forward, the relative wind direction comes from an angle, down and from the direction of the aircraft' s flight.