hydraulic

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Together these two forces make up the driving force behind moving groundwater which is known as the hydraulic head.

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  1. adjective Of, involving, moved by, or operated by a fluid, especially water, under pressure.
  2. adjective Able to set and harden under water, as Portland cement.
  3. adjective Of or relating to hydraulics.

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  • The power steering will be hydraulic, the electric power steering introduced as part of the EfficientDynamics program, is still an option but at extra charge. —  AutoSpies.com News
  • Together these two forces make up the driving force behind moving groundwater which is known as the hydraulic head. —  Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
  • Second-quickest, more than three tenths adrift, was fellow former F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen, who started his day early but later found his progress halted by a hydraulic issue that took some time to be rectified. —  Crash.Net Motorsports Newsfeed
  • One group gets on the hydraulic, that's a low impact machine and then the other does jumping jacks, running in place, just some little cardio activities. —  zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
  • This is in large measure due to the new electro-hydraulic Direct-Steer system, where the ratio varies with the steering angle. —  Jalopnik
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  1. Latin hydraulicus, from Greek hudraulikos, from hudraulis, water organ : hudro-, hudr-, hydro- + aulos, pipe, flute.

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  1. from French hydraulique = Spanish hidráulico = Portuguese hydraulico = Italian idraulico (cf. D. G. hydraulisch = Danish Swedish hydraulisk), from Latin hydraulicus, from Greek ὑδραυλικός, pertaining to the water-organ, from ύδραυλις, also ύδραυλος, a water-organ invented by an Egyptian named Ctesibius, literally a water-pipe, from υ%36δωρ (ὑδρ-), water, + αὐλός, a tube, pipe: see auletic.
 

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/haɪˈdrɔlɪk/
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