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wet-bulb temperature
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wet-bulb temperature [′wet ¦bəlb ′tem·prə·chər]
(meteorology)
Isobaric wet-bulb temperature, that is, the temperature an air parcel would have if cooled adiabatically to saturation at constant pressure by evaporation of water into it, all latent heat being supplied by the parcel.
The temperature read from the wet-bulb thermometer; for practical purposes, the temperature so obtained is identified with the isobaric wet-bulb temperature.


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We provide up-to-the moment weather conditions including the wet bulb temperature," said Athey.
6[degrees]F), and humidity levels were increased to a wet bulb temperature of 27.
For this Friday Market in Kuwait, hot dry external air is humidified with jets of atomized water, and cooled to near wet bulb temperature.
 
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