hydrations

Noun

hydration (usually uncountable, plural hydrations)

1. (usually) The incorporation of water molecules into a complex with those of another compound.
2. (usually) The process of providing an adequate amount of water to body tissues.
   • Proper nutrition – and even more important, proper hydration – is crucial in preventing and recovering from both fevers and colds.2016 September 16, Hailey Middlebrook, “Should you really feed a cold and starve a fever?”, in CNN
3. (usually) The chemical reaction by which a substance (such as cement) combines with water, giving off heat to form a crystalline structure in its setting and hardening.
4. (usually, object-oriented programming) The process of populating an object with data loaded from a data source.
5. (usually) Client-side rendering of pre-rendered static server data, e.g. to make dynamic web pages.

   Synonyms:

   rehydration