Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hydro-electric

Hydro-electric , adjective

[Hydro-, 1 + electric.]

Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used.
Collocations (1)
Hydro-electric machine (Physics) , an apparatus invented by Sir William Armstrong of England for generating electricity by the escape of high-pressure steam from a series of jets connected with a strong boiler, in which the steam is produced.