air-current

Cautiously, cautiously, she stopped every few feet to sniff the air and catch any sounds, careful to move against the slight, betraying air-current toward her goal.

Hunting the Thylacine Geoffrey Fox 2009

Cautiously, cautiously, she stopped every few feet to sniff the air and catch any sounds, careful to move against the slight, betraying air-current toward her goal.

Hunting the Thylacine 2009

After they first landed they lost a flyer in a tricky air-current flow up there.

The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958

Articulation, which is the pronunciation of a consonantal sound, is accomplished by interrupting the air-current, whether vibratory or not, at certain points.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

_M_, _n_ and _ng_, which are made by shutting off the escape of the air-current at either the lips or the hard-palate, and so forcing it through the nose, are often sustained to the detriment of beauty of tone and clear pronunciation as well.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

If water has been used, the air-current may be assisted by means of the water-pump, the air being sucked from the top, so that the wool has an opportunity of acting as a dust filter; a very slow stream of air only must be employed.

On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

The air-current, after passing through the holes, enters the mixer, a cast-steel box traversed by 36 copper tubes, each perforated by 12 openings, 3 mm. in diameter, arranged in a spiral along its length and equally spaced.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 Herbert M. Wilson

It was partially burned, but some freak of air-current or flame had left its destruction incomplete, and he saw that a rude plan or map had been drawn upon it.

The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant

Still, he managed to put his whiskers into proper trim, and pulled himself together, with every sense alert for the air-current which should betray some outlet.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

Aut hoc inclusi ligno occultantur Achivi, or, a worse enemy than the subtle Greek's, death from the suspended air-current.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various