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hygrology|haɪˈgrɒlədʒɪ| [mod. f. hygro- + -logy; prob. ad. F. hygrologie.] That department of physics which relates to the humidity of the atmosphere or other bodies.
1790De Luc in Phil. Trans. LXXXI. 7 Anomalies..of no consequence for the great objects of hygrology and meteorology. 1792Ibid. LXXXII. 400 An inquiry into the cause of evaporation belongs more to hygrology than to hygrometry. 1849Herschel in Man. Sci. Enq. ix. 268 [On the sea] we approach the chief problems of hygrology in their least involved and complicated form. ¶ Erroneously explained in mod. Dicts.
1819Pantologia, Hygrology,..the doctrine of the fluids. 1842Brande Dict. Sci., etc., Hygrology, a medical term, implying the doctrine of the humours or fluids of the body. [Hence in Worcester and later Dicts.] |