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What does updraught mean?

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Noun
  1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of updraft
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The total Catering and Food Service is experiencing a continuous updraught, and this was clearly noticeable on all days of the fair.
In microgravity there is no updraught and so a flame assumes a diffuse spherical shape around the combustion source.
Occasionally, with clashing air currents inside the cumulus cloud, a serious downdraught is thrust by an even more serious updraught.
And there is evidence of an updraught in the USA, Russia and Europe.
The rotation occurs due to interactions between the updraught of the plume and horizontal wind patterns.
Once a fire starts, the heat attracts an updraught, and the hotter the fire gets the more oxygen-rich air is sucked through the deck to feed it.

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