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Hygrometrical   Listen
adjective
Hygrometrical, Hygrometric  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to hygrometry; made with, or according to, the hygrometer; as, hygrometric observations.
2.
Readily absorbing and retaining moisture; as, hygrometric substances, like potash.






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"Hygrometrical" Quotes from Famous Books



... eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... is 3090 feet above the level of the Mediterranean. From a point on the side of the mountain masses of vapour are seen to issue, and these unite to form a cloud over the summit; the outline of this vapour-cloud varying continually according to the hygrometric state of the atmosphere, and the direction and force of the wind. At the time of Professor Judd's visit, the vapour-cloud was spread in a great horizontal stratum overshadowing the whole island; but it was ...
— Volcanoes: Past and Present • Edward Hull



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