psychrometer

English

The interior of a Stevenson screen showing a motorized psychrometer.

Alternative forms

psychrometre (nonstandard, rare)

Etymology

psychro- +‎ -meter

Noun

psychrometer (plural psychrometers)

(meteorology) Any of several instruments used to measure the relative humidity of the atmosphere; especially a wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer.

Derived terms

sling psychrometer

Related terms

psychrometric
psychrometry
Category:English words prefixed with psychro-

Translations

instrument which measures atmospheric humidity

Catalan: psicròmetre m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 乾濕表 (zh), 干湿表 (zh) (gānshībiǎo)
Finnish: psykrometri (fi)
French: psychromètre (fr) m
Galician: psicrómetro m
German: Luftfeuchtigkeitsmesser m
Greek: ψυχρόμετρο (el) n (psychrómetro)
Hungarian: nedvességmérő (hu)

Italian: psicrometro m
Japanese: 乾湿計 (kanshitsukei)
Korean: 건습계 (ko) (geonseupgye)
Malay: psikrometer
Portuguese: psicrómetro m (Portugal), psicrômetro m (Brazil)
Russian: психро́метр (ru) m (psixrómetr)
Spanish: psicrómetro m
Tagalog: lamigmigsukod

Anagrams

psychrometre

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