buffeting
English
Noun
buffeting (plural buffetings)
- A blow or motion that buffets.
- 1907, Algernon Blackwood, The Willows:
- Though still early in the afternoon, the ceaseless buffetings of a most tempestuous wind made us feel weary […]
- 2008 April 27, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times[1]:
- He suspected it was mainly for this that he married her, to be his shield against the world’s buffetings.
- (aviation) random, irregular motion of the plane or of one of its parts caused by turbulences in the airflow
Translations
random oscillations of the airplane
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Verb
buffeting