moisture content
How damp something
Moisture content is the amount of water contained in a substance, usually expressed as a percentage of total weight or volume.
The term appears in technical contexts—agriculture, construction, food science, manufacturing—where water levels affect quality, safety, or performance: The moisture content of the lumber must be below 19 percent before installation.
Soil moisture content determines irrigation needs; grain moisture content affects storage and pricing.
- wood dryingCuring cut timber
- saturation pointMaximum capacity reached
- bone dryTotally devoid of moisture
- evaporation rateLiquid-to-gas conversion velocity
- water weightMass from retained fluid
hygrometer · seed storage · grain · hygroscopic · building materials · paper products · drought resistance · shrinkage · capillary action · vapor pressure · food preservation · porosity · relative humidity · climate control · desiccant · moist · arid · absorbent
- flour testingwater absorption, alpha-amylase, color grading
- seed traitsseed coat, viability, vigor, dormancy, germination
- sludge propertiesviscosity, pH level, consistency, dry weight, dewatering
- soil hydrologypercolation, seepage, permeability, porosity, saturation
- harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
- humidityrelative humidity, humidity sensor, humidity reading, humidity control, humid
moisture contentdryness
Absence of moisture
aridity · desiccation · bone-dry · dehydration · anhydrous