hydrid
hydrid is the archaic form of hydride.
Meaning of hydride
Noun
hydride (plural hydrides)
- A compound of hydrogen with a more electropositive element.
Noun capitalized: Hydrid
Hydrid (plural Hydrids)
- Any of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Hydra.
- a similarly bright meteor at 12ʰ 33ᵐ was probably an α Hydrid1902, “Section for the Observation of Meteors”, in Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, volume 12, page 10
- The radiant analysis that included orbits from the Croatian Meteor Network Catalogues of Orbits 2007 to 2010 plus the orbits from the SonotaCo catalogues for 2007 to 2011 revealed a possible new Hydrid stream with radiant running parallel to, but distinct from, the sigma Hydrids.2013, D. Šegon et al., “A possible new meteor shower - η Hydrids”, in WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization
Forms of hydrid
| plural | hydrids |
|---|---|
| plural | Hydrids |
Origin of hydrid
From Hydra + -id.
Questions about hydrid
- What does hydrid mean?
- Hydrid means any of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Hydra.
- What is hydrid the archaic form of?
- Hydrid is the archaic form of hydride.
- What part of speech is hydrid?
- Hydrid is a noun.
- What is the plural of hydrid?
- The plural of hydrid is hydrids.
Words near hydrid in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydrid (page history and authors); Hydrid (page history and authors); hydride (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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