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Hydraulic [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

HYDRAUL'IC

Hydraulic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Relating to the conveyance of water through pipes.

2. Transmitting water through pipes; as a hydraulic engine.

3. Hydraulic lime, a species of lime that hardens in water; used for cementing under water.

Hydraulic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock.

Hydraulical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hydraulic.

Hydraulicon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.

Hydraulics [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The science of the motion and force of fluids, and of the construction of all kinds of instruments and machines by which the force of fluids is applied to practical purposes; a branch of hydrostatic.

2. Hydraulics is that branch of the science of hydrodynamics which treats of fluids considered as in motion.

Hydraulics [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.

Hydraulics Encyclopedia Britannica

HYDRAULICS. See Hydromechanics.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 12, p. 431
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