hydraulic
pronunciation
How to pronounce hydraulic in British English:
UK [haɪˈdrɒlɪk]
How to pronounce hydraulic in American English:
US [haɪˈdrɔːlɪk]
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- Adjective:
- moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil)
- of or relating to the study of hydraulics
Word Origin
- hydraulic (adj.)
- c. 1600, from Greek hydraulikos organon "water organ," from hydr-, stem of hydor "water" (see water (n.1)) + aulos "musical instrument, hollow tube" (see alveolus). Extended by the Romans to other kinds of water engines.
Example
- 1. In france , authorities recently banned hydraulic fracturing .
- 2. What about the concerns that hydraulic fracturing can mobilize radioactive material in bedrock ?
- 3. Shale is natural gas trapped in rock , and removed by hydraulic fracturing techniques .
- 4. Advances in horizontal drilling and the hydraulic fracturing of rock have made it possible to get previously inaccessible gas out .
- 5. Natural-gas prices have plummeted as energy companies used hydraulic fracturing to extract gas from vast shale formations .