Definitions for hygrometer

hygrometer hy·grom·e·ter

Spelling: [hahy-grom-i-ter]
IPA: /haɪˈgrɒm ɪ tər/

Hygrometer is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 334 anagrams from letters in hygrometer (eeghmorrty).

Definitions for hygrometer

noun

  1. any instrument for measuring the water-vapor content of the atmosphere.

Origin of hygrometer

First recorded in 1660-70; hygro- + -meter

Examples for hygrometer

At length it grew to such a pitch, that the tube of the hygrometer containing the water was exhausted in a couple of nights.

The humidity of the air was observed both by August's psychrometer and Saussure's hygrometer.

hygrometer, hī-grom′et-ėr, n. an instrument for measuring the moisture in the atmosphere, or its relative humidity.

The dew-point is determined by means of an instrument called a hygrometer.

It crawls forward in all weathers, like Richard Edgeworth's hygrometer.

In the instrument-screen we had a thermograph, hygrometer, and thermometers.

Again, if hygrometer read 90°, the mean humidity corresponding is 59°.

In ascending or descending a few hundred metres, the hygrometer may be observed to pass from dryness to saturation.

Thus the hygrometer is worthy to be studied on a hunting morning.

The hygrometer, invented by Mr. Daniell, gives the dew-point by inspection.

Word Value for hygrometer
Scrable

19

Words with friends

19

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