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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A measurement of the air temperature that factors in the effect of relative humidity, used as an indicator of the perceived temperature.
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- noun US, meteorology A figure used by
American meteorologists to describe the apparent heat felt by a person as the result of a combination oftemperature andhumidity .
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From heat + index
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