Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wet bulbing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wet bul-bing
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Cooling caused by evaporation.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] 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."
"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."

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Prefix: wet
Suffix: bulb

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

wet-bulbing (alternative)

Questions

What does wet bulbing mean?: Cooling caused by evaporation.
Where does wet bulbing come from?: From wet + bulb + -ing, after the wet bulb of a psychrometer which is cooled by evaporation.

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