hydraulic
UK/haɪˈdɹɒlɪk//haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/
hydraulic adjective: pertaining to water.
Adjective
hydraulic (not comparable)
- Pertaining to water.
- Tho' there are but seventeen feet water^([sic]) in the channel, I have seen vessels of five hundred ton enter into it. 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...1757, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana, page 47
- Related to, or operated by, hydraulics.
- A hydraulic press is operated by the differential pressure of water on pistons of different dimensions.
- Able to set underwater.
- hydraulic gypsum; hydraulic cements
Verb
hydraulic (third-person singular simple present hydraulics, present participle hydraulicking, simple past and past participle hydraulicked)
- To mine using the technique of hydraulic mining.
hydraulic meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
hydraulic in Tamil
- நீரழுத்த, நீராற்றலால் இயக்கப்படுகிற, நீர்ம அழுத்த, நீரியல், நீர்மத்தால் இயங்கும், நீரியலுக்குரிய
hydraulic in Bengali
- জলবাহী
hydraulic in Malayalam
- ദ്രവീയം, ജലമർദ്ദത്താൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന, ജലം വഹിച്ചുകൊണ്ടുപോകുന്ന
hydraulic in Kannada
- ಜಲಚಾಲಿತ, ಜಲಶಕ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವ
More languagesFewer languages
- hydraulic in Malay
- hidraulik
- hydraulic in Indonesian
- hidraulis
- hydraulic in Persian
- آبفشاری âbfešâri, هیدرولیک hidrolik, هیدرولیکی hidroliki
- hydraulic in Vietnamese
- thuỷ lực
Examples of hydraulic in a sentence
- The oil rig can be jacked up higher when the hydraulic legs touch the sea floor.
- The maximum forces of hydraulic presses vary from a few tens of tons to a few tens of kilotons.
- Some rocket engines have a total loss hydraulic system for engine gimbal, using fuel bled from the main turbopumps as the working fluid.
Forms of hydraulic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | hydraulick |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hydraulics |
| present participle | hydraulicking |
| past participle | hydraulicked |
| past | hydraulicked |
Origin of hydraulic
From French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (húdraulis, “water organ”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”).
Words formed from hydraulic
- aeraulic
- airdraulic
- diesel-hydraulic
- electrohydraulic
- fueldraulic
- glaciohydraulic
- handraulic
- hydraucone
- hydrauger
- hydraulically
- hydraulic belt
- hydraulic cement
- hydraulic conductivity
- hydraulic engineering
- hydraulic fluid
- hydraulic fracturing
- hydraulic horsepower
- hydraulician
- hydraulicity
- hydraulic jump
- hydraulic Keynesianism
- hydraulic lime
- hydraulic limestone
- hydraulic oil
- hydraulic organ
- hydraulic press
- hydraulic radius
- hydraulic ram
- hydraulic retention time
- hygraulic
- mandraulic
- microhydraulic
- nonhydraulic
- pneudraulic
- psychohydraulic
- sterhydraulic
- thermohydraulic
Phrases with hydraulic
- hydraulic oils
- hydraulic rams
- hydraulic belts
- hydraulic limes
- hydraulic radii
- hydraulic fluids
- hydraulic mining
- hydraulic organs
- hydraulic cements
- hydraulic presses
- hydraulic limestones
- hydraulic horsepowers
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with hydraulic
Questions about hydraulic
- What does hydraulic mean?
- Hydraulic means pertaining to water.
- What is hydraulic in Tamil?
- Hydraulic in Tamil is நீரழுத்த, நீராற்றலால் இயக்கப்படுகிற, நீர்ம அழுத்த. See Hydraulic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hydraulic?
- Hydraulic can be an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce hydraulic?
- Hydraulic is pronounced /haɪˈdɹɒlɪk/ (UK).
Words near hydraulic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hydraulic (page history and authors); hydraulic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hydraulic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hydraulic (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hydraulic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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