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Hydraulic vs Tailwater - What's the difference?

hydraulic | tailwater |

As an adjective hydraulic

is pertaining to water.

As a noun tailwater is

the water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.

hydraulic

English

Alternative forms

* hydraulick (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to water
    • I know not why this entrance is left so neglected, as we are not in want of able engineers in France, in the hydraulic branch, a part of the mathematics to which I have most applyed myself. — M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 47
  • Related to hydraulics

    • Derived terms

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    tailwater

    English

    Noun

  • The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 27, author=Peter Kaminsky, title=Rules for Reservoirs Pose Threat to Trout Population, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Like the more renowned Missouri and Henry’s Fork of Montana and Idaho, it is a tailwater fishery; that is, it owes its remarkable fecundity and its population of big wild trout to the cold-water outflow of reservoir impoundment. }}