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▪ I. hyther|ˈhaɪθə(r)|
[See quot. 1907.]
A quantity determined from temperature and humidity and intended to represent the discomfort attributable to their combined effect; also, a unit on a scale of 0 to 10 expressing this.
1904W. F. Tyler in Jrnl. Balneology VIII. 25 A number of persons..were requested to estimate daily at noon the degree of ‘hyther’ on a scale of 0 to 10. This word hyther was introduced to indicate the sensation caused by a warm climate, and supposed to be due to the combined effect of heat and humidity. 1907― in Monthly Weather Rev. June 268/1, I consider the term ‘sensible temperature’ to be rather misleading, temperature being only one factor in the subjective effect. It was for this reason that..I coined the word hyther from hydro and thermos. 1931A. Castellani Climate & Acclimatization ii. 39 It was observations like these that caused Tyler to attempt to correlate personal sensations with meteorological data, and to formulate his ‘hyther’ degrees, by which he meant the degree of discomfort caused by high air temperatures associated with high relative humidity. 1937Nature 9 Jan. 79/1 Their sensations [of temperature] were recorded on an arbitrary scale extending from 1 to 10; the numbers on the scale have been called hythers, hyther 10 being taken to represent an ‘unbearable condition’.
▪ II. hyther
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