dry-bulb thermometer

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   an ordinary thermometer with a dry bulb; used to measure the air temperature

   Antonymswet-bulb thermometer

   Broaderthermometer

   Part ofpsychrometer

Questions about dry-bulb thermometer

What does dry-bulb thermometer mean?

dry-bulb thermometer means "an ordinary thermometer with a dry bulb; used to measure the air temperature".

What is the opposite of dry-bulb thermometer?

The recorded antonyms are wet-bulb thermometer.

Is dry-bulb thermometer a common word?

dry-bulb thermometer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.