siccityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

siccity (usually uncountable, 複数形 siccities)

1. (formal, rare) Dryness.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     , Book I, New York, 2001, page 156:

     To the preservation of life the natural heat is most requisite, though siccity and humidity […] be not excluded.

   • 1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Medea", Act III., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 431:

     […] so long as the polar heavens regulate the movement of the Northern Bear, and preserve it, in its siccity (the Bears are called "siccæ", または dry, as they never set) […]

   • 2006, Joseph A. Munk, Arizona Sketches (ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 124:

     Only by extreme siccity is such land possible when more water rises in evaporation than falls by precipitation.

   • 2007, Patricia Arlabosse, Jean-Henry Ferrasse, Didier Lecomte, Michel Crine, Yohann Dumont, Angélique Léonard, "Efficient sludge thermal processing: from drying to thermal valorization", in Evangelos Tsotsas, Arun S. Mujumdar (eds) Modern Drying Technology, Energy Savings (John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 319:

     At least regarding combustion, it is advisable to derive conditions for the auto-ignition of the wet sewage sludge from an enthalpy balance with a flame temperature of 600 °C. This generally gives values of siccity close to 50%.

関連する語

• dessicate
• dessication
• exsiccation