psychrometry

English

WOTD – 12 January 2024

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /saɪˈkɹɒmɪtɹi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /saɪˈkɹɑmətɹi/
Hyphenation: psy‧chro‧met‧ry

Noun

psychrometry (usually uncountable, plural psychrometries)

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

Usage notes

Not to be confused with psychometry.

Related terms

Category:English terms prefixed with psychro-

Translations

synonym of psychrometrics — see also psychrometrics

Catalan: psicrometria f
French: psychrométrie (fr) f
Galician: psicometría f
German: Psychrometrie ?
Hungarian: pszichrometria
Italian: psicrometria (it)
Macedonian: психроме́трија f (psihrométrija)
Portuguese: psicrometria f
Sardinian: psicrometrìa
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: психрометрија ?

Roman: psihrometrija ?
Spanish: psicrometría f
Turkish: psikrometri

See also

References

“psychrometry, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
“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.

Further reading

psychrometrics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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