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psychrometrics

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, thermodynamics

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Synonyms: psychrometry

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From psychro- + metrics.

Across languages

Translations

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: سايكرومتري — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Catalan: psicrometria — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Chinese Mandarin: 測濕學 /测湿学 (cèshīxué) — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Finnish: psykrometria — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • French: psychrométrie — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Galician: psicometría — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • German: Psychrometrie — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Greek: υγρομετρία (ygrometría) — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Hungarian: pszichrometria — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Irish: sícriméadracht — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Italian: psicrometria — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Macedonian: психроме́трија (psihrométrija) — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Portuguese: psicrometria — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Sardinian: psicrometrìa — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Serbo-Croatian: психрометрија — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Serbo-Croatian: psihrometrija — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Spanish: psicrometría — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Thai: ไซโครเมทรี — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour
  • Turkish: psikrometri — measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour