An ordinary exposed thermometer bulb, especially as used in conjunction with a wet bulb.
（温度计的）干球
Example sentencesExamples
Wet and dry bulb air temperature were logged at 15 second intervals and used to calculate hourly means.
At a given temperature, high humidity causes little water evaporation and little cooling of the thermometer; therefore, the wet bulb thermometer reading is similar to that of the dry bulb thermometer.
Comfort conditions were calculated from dry bulb, wet bulb and globe temperature measurements as well as wind speed.
They calculated a temperature-humidity index that increases as dry bulb temperature and humidity rise.
As Gene stated, the wet-bulb temperature will be lower than the dry-bulb temperature because of evaporative cooling.
Definition of dry bulb in US English:
dry bulb
noun
An ordinary exposed thermometer bulb, especially as used in conjunction with a wet bulb.
（温度计的）干球
Example sentencesExamples
Wet and dry bulb air temperature were logged at 15 second intervals and used to calculate hourly means.
Comfort conditions were calculated from dry bulb, wet bulb and globe temperature measurements as well as wind speed.
They calculated a temperature-humidity index that increases as dry bulb temperature and humidity rise.
As Gene stated, the wet-bulb temperature will be lower than the dry-bulb temperature because of evaporative cooling.
At a given temperature, high humidity causes little water evaporation and little cooling of the thermometer; therefore, the wet bulb thermometer reading is similar to that of the dry bulb thermometer.