Definitions for hygrometers

hygrometers hy·grom·e·ter

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

Hygrometers is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 653 anagrams from letters in hygrometers (eeghmorrsty).

Definitions for hygrometers

noun

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

Origin of hygrometers

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

Examples for hygrometers

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for hygrometers
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