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moisture equivalent

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables
mois-ture e-quiv-a-lent
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A measure of field capacity for fine-textured soil materials, defined as the percentage of water which a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 1,000 times that of gravity.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

moisture equivalents (plural)

Questions

What does moisture equivalent mean?
A measure of field capacity for fine-textured soil materials, defined as the percentage of water which a soil can retain in opposition to a centrifugal force 1,000 times that of gravity.

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