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Hydro vs Hydraulic - What's the difference?

hydro | hydraulic |

As adjectives the difference between hydro and hydraulic

is that hydro is hydroelectric while hydraulic is pertaining to water.

As a noun hydro

is hydroelectric power.

hydro

English

Adjective

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  • hydroelectric

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) hydroelectric power
  • (Canada, uncountable) electrical power supply; specifically : electrical power provided by a utility (as a publicly-owned one)
    • ''I won't have lights until my house gets the hydro turned on.
  • (British, countable, dated) A spa.
  • * (Rudyard Kipling)
    • She almost lived at hotels and hydros , last year, but that isn't pleasant for her.
  • (countable, aviation, obsolete)

    • 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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