heat index

English

Etymology

From heat +‎ index.

Noun

heat index (plural heat indexes or heat indices)

1. (US, meteorology) A figure used by American meteorologists to describe the apparent heat felt by a person as the result of a combination of temperature and humidity.

Hypernyms

• index

Coordinate terms

• humidex (Canadian English)

Translations

figure used to describe the apparent heat felt by a person

• Catalan: temperatura de xafogor f
• German: Hitzeindex m
• Korean: 열지수(熱指數) (ko) (yeoljisu)
• Romanian: index de căldură n
• Swedish: värmeindex n, humidex n
• Turkish: ısı indeksi

See also

• windchill, windchill factor

References

• heat index on Wikipedia.Wikipedia