sling psychrometer

noun

1. a psychrometer so designed that the wet-bulb thermometer can be ventilated, to expedite evaporation, by whirling in the air.

Example Sentences

In one video, Huth licks his forearm and flails his arms, turning himself into a human sling psychrometer to estimate humidity.

From Washington Post

From preliminary experiments with a sling psychrometer it was found that its use was precluded by the space required to successfully use this instrument, the addition of an unknown amount of water to the chamber from the wet bulb, and the difficulties of reading the instrument from without the chamber.

From Project Gutenberg

The sling psychrometer as used by the U.S.

From Project Gutenberg

They included the Mummery tent with pegs and poles, the mountain-mercurial barometer, the two Watkins aneroids, the hypsometer, a pair of Zeiss glasses, two 3A kodaks, six films, a sling psychrometer, a prismatic compass and clinometer, a Stanley pocket level, an eighty-foot red-strand mountain rope, three ice axes, a seven-foot flagpole, an American flag and a Yale flag.

From Project Gutenberg