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wet bulbing en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Cooling caused by evaporation.
   • 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:
   • […] 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:

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