psychrometer
- noun
- /saɪˈkrɒmɪtər/
- Specialized
:
psicrómetro
- To determine the moisture content in the air, she carefully calibrated her psychrometer in the lab.
- a sling psychrometer
Examples
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The humidity should be monitored with a hygrometer or a psychrometer.
Academic text (1994) -
Relative humidity was measured by sling psychrometer.
Academic text (1993) -
I don't think sling psychrometers are used anymore.
Blog text (22) -
The relative humidity in the room, measured with a sling psychrometer, was approximately 76 percent, which minimized the desiccation that the relatively high air change rate could have caused.
Academic text (2003) -
The meteorologist used a psychrometer to check the humidity levels before the forecast.
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Using a psychrometer, the researchers recorded the humidity to study the effects on plant growth.
Synonyms
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A tool that measures how much moisture is in the air
An instrument that measures moisture in the air using a wet thermometer and a dry thermometer
Surface Forms
Morphology
psychrometer = psychro + meter
The word uses the classical combining form psychro- and the measuring suffix -meter, but the specialized technical meaning is not recoverable for an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Psychrometer comes from the Greek parts psychro- meaning 'cold' and -meter meaning 'measure'. It is like a 'cold measurer' and, like a thermometer, uses how much the wet part cools to show how much moisture is in the air.