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Quietly sing one tune, losing heart in clammy conditions
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humidity
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French humidité , from Latin humiditatem (nominative humiditas ), from humidus (see humid ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. wetness in the atmosphere [syn: humidness ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE high ▪ Their natural habitat is the Amazonian jungle with a high temperature and humidity . ▪ Storing in greenhouses with a high humidity very quickly diminishes their viability. ▪ If you want those fresh green ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 dampness, especially that of the air. 2 the amount of water vapour in the air.
Usage examples of humidity.
The low humidity was an excellent factor in their preservation, and although the avionics and weaponry were outdated, money could cure that.
Air temperature, ground temperature, humidity, sunlight, precipitation, wind speed, and obstacles such as buildings and terrain all influence the success of any effort to disperse biochem agents.
It was easily in the nineties, in terms both of temperature and humidity, and my thin petticoats clung soddenly to my lower limbs.
They were all perspiring in the humidity by now, though Sternberg led the field in gabardine slacks and a forehead full of tributaries.
She popped condroitin and glucosamine daily but this Carolina humidity and heatit was hell on her poor joints.
Beyond it was a burial ground --a dreadful spot in which the night was very slowly stirring, but where I could dimly see heaps of dishonoured graves and stones, hemmed in by filthy houses with a few dull lights in their windows and on whose walls a thick humidity broke out like a disease.
He would also wear a small pouch containing instruments for scientific measurement, including a digital thermometer, a hygrometer for measuring humidity, and a manometer for measuring atmospheric pressure.
HOURS HAD PASSED, and still the air was so thick with humidity Merissa felt each breath.
I went off to crawl under the covers, which were damp from humidity and gave off a mildewy odor.
When 2 million fish, mostly tilapia, died on August 27-28, the shoreline quickly became a putrefying, malodorous mass of carcasses rotting in 120 degree heat and 75 percent humidity.
Among the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste, there hung in the dimness Edward Lear watercolours of Italy and Stubbs sporting prints swollen with humidity and spotted as blighted leaves.
In his correspondence with Goethe it is exasperating to observe that these great poets kept so little reserve vim in stock that a slight change of temperature or humidity, or even a dark day, was enough to overdraw their health account and bankrupt their work.
This was another large prefabricated warehouse, fitted with airtight doors and a powerful air-conditioning unit to maintain the scrolls in an atmosphere of optimum temperature and humidity.
Twenty-four was wearing a singlet and shorts against the heat and humidity of the kitchen.
Inside the suits, they tried to blink the unevaporated sweat from their eyes and slowly cooked in the high humidity.