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#<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Isobaric wet-bulb temperature: the [[temperature]] an [[air parcel]] would  have if cooled adiabatically to [[saturation]] at constant [[pressure]] by [[evaporation]] of water into it,  all [[latent heat]] being supplied by the parcel.</div><br/> </div>
#<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Adiabatic wet-bulb temperature (<br/>''or'' pseudo wet-bulb temperature): the [[temperature]] an [[air  parcel]] would have if cooled adiabatically to [[saturation]] and then compressed adiabatically to the  original [[pressure]] in a [[moist-adiabatic process]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">This is the wet-bulb temperature as read off the [[thermodynamic diagram]] and is always less  than the [[isobaric wet-bulb temperature]], usually by a fraction of a [[degree]] centigrade.</div><br/> </div>
#<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">The [[temperature]] read from the [[wet-bulb thermometer]].</div><br/> </div>
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