hydro

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hydro/ˈhʌɪdrəʊ/

▶noun (pl. hydros)

• 1 Brit. a hotel or clinic originally providing hydropathic treatment.

• 2 a hydroelectric power plant.

  ■ hydroelectricity.

  ■ Canadian electricity supplied by a public utility.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hydro- /ˈhʌɪdrəʊ/ (also hydr- before a vowel)

▶combining form

• 1 water; relating to water: hydraulic.

  ■ Medicine affected with an accumulation of serous fluid: hydrocephalus.

• 2 Chemistry combined with hydrogen: hydrocarbon.

– origin from Gk hudōr ‘water’.