psychrometer

1. 1.

   a hygrometer consisting of a dry-bulb thermometer and a wet-bulb thermometer; their difference indicates the dryness of the surrounding air

   Broaderhygrometer

   Partsdry-bulb thermometerwet-bulb thermometer

Other forms of psychrometer

plural

psychrometers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about psychrometer

What does psychrometer mean?

psychrometer means "a hygrometer consisting of a dry-bulb thermometer and a wet-bulb thermometer; their difference indicates the dryness of the surrounding air".

How many syllables are in psychrometer?

psychrometer has 4 syllables: psych-ro-me-ter. The stress falls on "ro".

Is psychrometer a common word?

psychrometer 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.