psychrometry
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English
Etymology
From psychro- (prefix meaning ‘cold’) + -metry (suffix forming nouns relating to measures and measurement), modelled after psychrometer.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /saɪˈkɹɒmɪtɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /saɪˈkɹɑmətɹi/
- Hyphenation: psy‧chro‧met‧ry
Noun
psychrometry (usually uncountable, plural psychrometries)
- (meteorology, thermodynamics) Synonym of psychrometrics (“the measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour”)
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with psychometry.
Related terms
Translations
synonym of psychrometrics — see also psychrometrics
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See also
References
- ^ “psychrometry, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
- ^ “psychrometry, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
Further reading
psychrometrics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
