Definition of Hygrostat

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hygrostat

hygrophoroid
hygrophthalmic
hygrophyte
hygrophytes
hygrophytic
hygroplasm
hygroscope
hygroscopes
hygroscopic
hygroscopic expansion
hygroscopically
hygroscopicities
hygroscopicity
hygroscopy
hygrosensation
hygrostat (current term)
hygrostatics
hygrostats
hygrostomia
hygrothermal
hygrothermograph
hying
hyke
hykes
hyl-
hyla
hylaeosaurus
hylarchical
hylas
hylase

Literary usage of Hygrostat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Phonographic Dictionary and Phrase Book by Benn Pitman, Jerome Bird Howard (1901)
"... A ' * 4 hygrostat'i' hydrochlo'rate v hydrochlo'ric ... :ry ,pe :Op 1C hygrostat Hyk'sos ..."

2. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"... described are: the soil box of Graf, the thermo hygrostat of Headlee and that of Tower. An account is given of the methods in use at the Stations of ..."

3. Heating and Ventilating Buildings: A Manual for Heating Engineers and Architects by Rolla Clinton Carpenter (1915)
"(c) By means of some form of differential hygrostat which controls the wet bulb temperature with respect to the dry bulb temperature so as to maintain a ..."

4. Heating and Ventilation by John Robins Allen, James Herbert Walker (1922)
"In a compressed-air system of control, a diaphragm valve is placed on the supply to the water heater and may be operated by means of a " hygrostat" or ..."

5. Heating and Ventilation by John Robins Allen, James Herbert Walker (1922)
"In a compressed-air system of control, a diaphragm valve is placed on the supply to the water heater and may be operated by means of a "hygrostat" or ..."

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