HUMIDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does humidity mean? 

• HUMIDITY (noun)
  The noun HUMIDITY has 1 sense:

1. wetness in the atmosphere

  Familiarity information: HUMIDITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMIDITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wetness in the atmosphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

humidity; humidness

Hypernyms ("humidity" is a kind of...):

wetness (the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "humidity"):

mugginess (a state of warm humidity)

Derivation:

humid (containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor)

humidify (make (more) humid)

 Context examples 

They recorded temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide and noise in each bedroom throughout the study.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

New calculations were based on more than a full Mars year of temperature and humidity measurements by Curiosity.

(Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine, NASA)

A device problem that occurred due to factors within the environment e.g. dust, dirt, humidity, temperature.

(Device Environment Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

A device that malfunctions as the result of exposure to undesirable levels of humidity

(Device Humidity Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

The units of measure that are used to express the humidity of a residential environment.

(Housing Humidity Units, NCI Thesaurus)

Countries close to the equator typically see average temperatures of around 20-30 degrees Celsius and air humidity of around 60-95 per cent — ideal conditions for indoor mould to grow.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)

They showed that the width of the nostrils is strongly correlated with temperature and absolute humidity.

(Nose Form Was Shaped by Climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Avoid scratching, wearing irritating fabrics and high heat and humidity.

(Itching, NIH)

The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the largest ice-free region of Antarctica and are considered a polar desert environment due to their low humidity and scarce precipitation.

(Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, National Science Foundation)

Issue associated with an unsatisfactory humidity level in the storage or use environment which affects device performance.

(Moisture or Humidity Problem Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)