dehumidify
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[edit]dehumidify (third-person singular simple present dehumidifies, present participle dehumidifying, simple past and past participle dehumidified)
- To reduce the moisture in a body of air; to lower the humidity.
- Many air conditioners, in addition to reducing the temperature, also dehumidify the air.
- 1949, Proceedings of the ... Consolidated Convention of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America, page 159:
- The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
- 1960 August, G. Freeman Allen, “The new diesel-electric luxury Pullman units of British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 475:
- [...] the compressor and condenser units of the refrigeration apparatus, which cools and de-humidifies the air entering the cars, are underframe-mounted, with evaporator units in the ceiling, [...].
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