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What is a downdraft?

What is a downdraft? Here are some definitions.

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For the sink you'll need supply and drain lines, and for the cooktop a ventilation system-either an overhead unit or a downdraft model.
Commercial airlines were in a tailspin, and Boeing was caught in the downdraft.
It is caused by the tremendous updraft and downdraft winds within the thunderstorm.
An aircraft flying into such a column experiences a headwind, followed by a downdraft and then a tailwind.
The rain stifles the updraft, reverses it into a downdraft and kills it.
It appears to be a case of thermotropism, where the flower buds sense the cold downdraft of a thunderstorm and constrict before the drowning rain arrives.

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