hydraulic

English

Alternative forms

• hydraulick (obsolete)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɒlɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/

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Adjective

hydraulic (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to water. [from early 17th c.]
   • 1757, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana, page 47:

     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 applyed^[sic] myself.

2. Related to, or operated by, hydraulics.

   A hydraulic press is operated by the differential pressure of water on pistons of different dimensions.

Derived terms

• aeraulic
• airdraulic
• diesel-hydraulic
• electrohydraulic
• fueldraulic
• glaciohydraulic
• handraulic
• hydraucone
• hydrauger
• hydraulically
• hydraulic belt
• hydraulic cement
• hydraulic conductivity
• hydraulic engineering
• hydraulic fracturing
• hydraulic horsepower
• hydraulician
• hydraulicity
• hydraulic Keynesianism
• hydraulic lime
• hydraulic limestone
• hydraulic organ
• hydraulic press
• hydraulic radius
• hydraulic ram
• hydraulic retention time
• hygraulic
• mandraulic
• microhydraulic
• nonhydraulic
• pneudraulic
• psychohydraulic
• sterhydraulic
• thermohydraulic

 

Translations

having to do with water

• Bulgarian: во́ден (bg) (vóden)
• Catalan: hidràulic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水力的 (zh) (shuǐlì de)

• French: hydraulique (fr)
• Galician: hidráulico m
• German: Wasser-, wasserkundlich
• Indonesian: hidraulis (id)
• Italian: idraulico (it)
• Malay: hidraulik (ms)
• Persian: آبفشاری (âbfešâri), هیدرولیک (fa) (hidrolik)
• Polish: hydrauliczny (pl)
• Spanish: hidráulico (es)

related to hydraulics

• Armenian: ջրաբաշխական (hy) (ǰrabašxakan)
• Asturian: hidráulicu
• Belarusian: гідраўлі́чны (hidraŭlíčny)
• Bulgarian: хидравли́чен (hidravlíčen)
• Catalan: hidràulic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 液壓／液压 (zh) (yèyā)

• Czech: hydraulický (cs)
• Danish: hydraulisk
• Dutch: hydraulisch (nl)
• Finnish: hydraulinen (fi)
• French: hydraulique (fr)
• Galician: hidráulico
• German: hydraulisch (de)
• Hungarian: hidraulikus (hu)
• Indonesian: hidraulis (id)
• Italian: idraulico (it)
• Kazakh: гидравликалық (gidravlikalyq)
• Latvian: hidraulisks
• Malay: hidraulik (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hydraulisk

  Nynorsk: hydraulisk

• Persian: هیدرولیکی (hidroliki)
• Polish: hydrauliczny (pl)
• Portuguese: hidráulico (pt)
• Russian: гидравли́ческий (ru) (gidravlíčeskij)
• Spanish: hidráulico (es)
• Swedish: hydraulisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: гідравлі́чний (hidravlíčnyj)
• Vietnamese: thuỷ lực (vi)

Verb

hydraulic (third-person singular simple present hydraulics, present participle hydraulicking, simple past and past participle hydraulicked)

1. (transitive) To mine using the technique of hydraulic mining.