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hygrometry

American  
[hahy-grom-i-tree] / haɪˈgrɒm ɪ tri /

noun

  1. the branch of physics that deals with the measurement of the humidity of air and gases.


Etymology

Origin of hygrometry

First recorded in 1775–85; hygro- + -metry

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Is it an effect of pressure, of hygrometry, of electrical conditions, of properties that escape our coarser physical attunement?

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

The dew-point method is indeed in some ways a fundamental method of hygrometry.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

His observations for temperature, pressure, variation, hygrometry, and psychrometry of the Orotavan climate, which he chose for health, are valuable.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Gay-Lussac’s earlier researches were mostly physical in character and referred mainly to the properties of gases, vapour-tensions, hygrometry, capillarity, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

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