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wet bulbing

wet bulbing noun: cooling caused by evaporation.

Noun

wet bulbing (uncountable)

  1. Cooling caused by evaporation.
    • […] by daybreak, many areas had made the change to snow thanks to a few variables: colder air moving in from the north; a period of drier air aloft that allowed for evaporative cooling/wet bulbing; and higher precipitation rates.2017, “Snowstorm of December 8, 2017”, in National Weather Service
    • This article describes and evaluates a novel sensor housing designed to shield airborne sensors from artificial heat sources and artificial wet-bulbing while pulling air from outside the rotor wash influence.2019, Ashraful Islam et al., “Design and Evaluation of Sensor Housing for Boundary Layer Profiling Using Multirotors”, in Sensors, volume 19, number 11, →DOI

Forms of wet bulbing

alternative formwet-bulbing

Origin of wet bulbing

From wet + bulb + -ing, after the wet bulb of a psychrometer which is cooled by evaporation.

Questions about wet bulbing

What does wet bulbing mean?
Wet bulbing means cooling caused by evaporation.
What part of speech is wet bulbing?
Wet bulbing is a noun.

Words near wet bulbing in the dictionary

  1. wet break
  2. wet breaks
  3. wet bulb
  4. wet bulb temperature
  5. wet bulb temperatures
  6. wet bulbing
  7. wet bulbs
  8. wet cell
  9. wet cells
  10. wet check
  11. wet checks

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