psychrometry

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From psychro- (prefix meaning ‘cold’) +‎ -metry (suffix forming nouns relating to measures and measurement), modelled after psychrometer.[1][2]

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psychrometry (usually uncountable, plural psychrometries)

  1. (meteorology, thermodynamics) Synonym of psychrometrics (the measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour)

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  1. ^ psychrometry, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
  2. ^ 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.

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