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单词 hygrology
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hygrologyn.

Brit. /hʌɪˈɡrɒlədʒi/, U.S. /haɪˈɡrɑlədʒi/
Etymology: modern < hygro- comb. form + -logy comb. form; probably < French hygrologie.
1. That department of physics which relates to the humidity of the atmosphere or other bodies.
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the world > matter > liquid > moisture or humidity > [noun] > measurement of humidity
hygrometry1783
hygrology1790
psychrometry1853
hygroscopy1855
1790 De Luc in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 81 7 Anomalies..of no consequence for the great objects of hygrology and meteorology.
1792 De Luc in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 400 An inquiry into the cause of evaporation belongs more to hygrology than to hygrometry.
1849 J. F. W. Herschel Man. Sci. Enq. (Lords Commissioners Admiralty) ix. 268 [On the sea] we approach the chief problems of hygrology in their least involved and complicated form.
2. (See quots.)Apparently only attested in dictionaries.
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1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Hygrology,..the doctrine of the fluids.
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 576/2 Hygrology, a medical term, implying the doctrine of the humours or fluids of the body. [Hence in Worcester and later Dicts.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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