RELATIVE HUMIDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relative humidity mean? 

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

1. the ratio of the amount of water in the air at a given temperature to the maximum amount it could hold at that temperature; expressed as a percentage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIVE HUMIDITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ratio of the amount of water in the air at a given temperature to the maximum amount it could hold at that temperature; expressed as a percentage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))

 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)

Conditions should be even more favorable at higher latitudes, where colder temperatures and more water vapor can result in higher relative humidity more often.

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

Now, the researchers analysed the different isotopes of water trapped within the crystal structure of the gypsum to determine changes in rainfall and relative humidity during the Maya downfall.

(Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse, University of Cambridge)

Based on these measurements, the researchers found that annual precipitation decreased between 41% and 54% relative to today during the period of the Maya civilisation’s collapse, with periods of up to 70% rainfall reduction during peak drought conditions, and that relative humidity declined by 2% to 7% relative to today.

(Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse, University of Cambridge)

By mapping the proportion of the different isotopes contained within each layer of gypsum, the researchers were able to build a model to estimate past changes in rainfall and relative humidity over the period of the Maya collapse.

(Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse, University of Cambridge)