wet-bulb temperature

A form of wet bulb temperature — The temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked (water at ambient temperature) cloth over which air is passed.

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Meanings

nounwet-bulb temperature (countable and uncountable, plural wet-bulb temperatures)

plural wet-bulb temperatures

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of wet bulb temperature.

    The wet-bulb temperatures in South Asia this spring have been called “unsurvivable.”

    2022 July 14, David Wallace-Wells, “The Mysteriously Low Death Toll of the Heat Waves in India and Pakistan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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