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Meaning of WET-BULB THERMOMETER

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[n]  a thermometer with a bulb that is covered with moist muslin; used in a psychrometer to measure humidity
 
 Antonyms: dry-bulb thermometer
 
 See Also: psychrometer, thermometer

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Wet-bulb thermometer\ (Physics)
That one of the two similar thermometers of a psychrometer
the bulb of which is moistened; also, the entire instrument.

 

 

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