Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The theory and art of determining by means of a psychrometer the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hygrometry.
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- noun the
measurement orstudy of thethermodynamic properties ofmoist air
Etymologies
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psychro- + -metry
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Examples
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His observations for temperature, pressure, variation, hygrometry, and psychrometry of the Orotavan climate, which he chose for health, are valuable.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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