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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
- Wind: A Breath of Heart, 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
See also
- Spring (device), something that may be wound, particularly by rotating a dial or wheel
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