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Hygrometer   /haɪgrˈɑmətər/   Listen
Hygrometer

noun
1.
Measuring instrument for measuring the relative humidity of the atmosphere.





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"Hygrometer" Quotes from Famous Books



... to foretell weather accurately, much useful foresight may be acquired by combining the indications of instruments (such as the barometer, thermometer, and hygrometer) with atmospheric appearances. What is more varying than the aspect of the sky? Colour, tint of clouds, their soft or hard look, their outline, size, height, direction, all vary rapidly, yet each is significant. There is a peculiar aspect of the clouds ...
— Barometer and Weather Guide • Robert Fitzroy
... the finest instrument-screen standing ready on the hill, painted white so that it shone a long way off: The wind-vane was a work of art, constructed by our able engineer, Sundbeck. No factory could have supplied a more handsome or tasteful one. In the instrument-screen we had a thermograph, hygrometer, and thermometers. Observations were made at 8 a.m., 2 p.m., and 8 p.m. When I was at home I took them, and when I was away ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen
... of 1794-1795 proved much colder "than ever I knew it in England," but he cheerfully requested Samuel Parker to send him a hygrometer, shades or bell-glasses, jars for ...
— Priestley in America - 1794-1804 • Edgar F. Smith


Words linked to "Hygrometer" :   hygroscope, measuring system, measuring device, psychrometer, measuring instrument, hygrodeik


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