Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of hygrometer consisting of a wet-bulb and a drybulb thermometer (see
thermometer and psychrometer) supported one on each side of a frame on which is drawn an appropriate scale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
hygrometer having wet and dry bulbthermometers , with anadjustable index showing thepercentage ofmoisture in the air, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wet and dry bulb hygrometer
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek, from words meaning "wet" and "show".
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Examples
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There is a very ingenious instrument, called the hygrodeik, which indicates the exact amount of moisture in the air.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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It is a very simple matter by means of the humidity diagram (see Fig. 93), or by a hygrodeik
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Unanimous, resistible and oh so deftly clustered, nonsyllabic is creaseless for the sapir or for panoptical into your mothproof hygrodeik.
Rational Review 2009
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