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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a thermometer with a bulb that is covered with moist muslin; used in a psychrometer to measure humidity;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wet-bulb thermometer \Wet-bulb thermometer\ (Physics) That one of the two similar thermometers of a psychrometer the bulb of which is moistened; also, the entire instrument. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wet-bulb thermometer n 1: a thermometer with a bulb that is covered with moist muslin; used in a psychrometer to measure humidity [ant: dry-bulb thermometer]