siccity
English
Etymology
From Latin siccitas, from siccus (“dry”).
Noun
siccity (uncountable)
- (formal, rare) Dryness.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):, 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", or 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%.
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Related terms
- dessicate
- dessication
- exsiccation
Translations
dryness — see dryness