relative humidity

1. 1.

   the ratio of the amount of water in the air at a given temperature to the maximum amount it could hold at that temperature; expressed as a percentage

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Questions about relative humidity

What does relative humidity mean?

relative humidity means "the ratio of the amount of water in the air at a given temperature to the maximum amount it could hold at that temperature; expressed as a percentage".

Is relative humidity a common word?

relative humidity 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.