Wind (disambiguation)

Wind (disambiguation)

Wind usually means the movement of air. The term may also refer to:
* Wind power, use of wind as a source of energy
* Wind god or "the winds", deities representing wind
* Solar wind, stream of charged particles ejected from the sun
* Woodwind instrument
* WIND, a NASA spacecraft launched in 1994 to study solar wind
* WIND (AM), a radio station in Chicago
* MSI Wind PC, notebook computer

in culture:
* The Wind, 1928 film about life in a small Texas town
* Wind (film), 1992 film centering on the America's Cup series of yachting races
* Wind (band), German musical group created in 1985
* "The Wind" (album), 2003 album by Warren Zevon
* Winds (band), Norwegian progressive metal band formed in 1998
* w-inds., a J-Pop vocal group, formed in 2001
* "", 2002 visual novel
* "Wind" (Akeboshi song), 2002 Japanese pop song by Akeboshi, and used in the anime series "Naruto"

in telecommunications:
* WIND Hellas, a mobile telephone carrier in Greece.
* WIND (Italy), a mobile telephone carrier in Italy
* WiND, for Wireless Nodes Database, web application in Greece

Wind as a surname:
* Edgar Wind (1900-1971), British historian
* Edmund De Wind (1883-1918), Canadian/Irish war hero
* Hans Wind (1919-1995), World War II flying ace

ee also

* Spring (device), something that may be wound, particularly by rotating a dial or wheel


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