Hydraulic Definition

hī-drôlĭk
adjective
Operated by the movement and force of liquid; specif., operated by the pressure created when a liquid is forced through an aperture, tube, etc.
Hydraulic brakes.
Webster's New World
Of hydraulics.
Webster's New World
Setting or hardening under water.
Hydraulic mortar.
Webster's New World

Pertaining to water.

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 myself. — M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 47
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Origin of Hydraulic

  • Latin hydraulicus from Greek hudraulikos from hudraulis water organ hudro-, hudr- hydro- aulos pipe, flute

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikos, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (hudraulis, “water organ”).

    From Wiktionary

Hydraulic Sentence Examples

  • With Fowler's hydraulic arrangement 2000 tons are raised 600 yds.

  • This second method forms the basis of the lifting gear in all hydraulic cranes.

  • The mineral wealth of the department is considerable, including coal as well as manganese and bituminous schist; plaster, building stone and hydraulic lime are also produced.

  • A considerable number of men are engaged in the various states on alluvial fields, in hydraulic sluicing, and dredging is now adopted for the winning of gold in river deposits.

  • But hydraulic presses have now been abandoned, for the juice is universally obtained by diffusion, and the small slicers have gone out of use, because the large amount of pulp they produced in proportion to slices is not suitable for the diffusion process, in which evenly cut slices are required, which present a much greater surface with far less resistance to the diffusion water.

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