HYDROELECTRIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydroelectric mean? 

• HYDROELECTRIC (adjective)
  The adjective HYDROELECTRIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or used in the production of electricity by waterpower

  Familiarity information: HYDROELECTRIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROELECTRIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or used in the production of electricity by waterpower

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

hydroelectric power

Pertainym:

hydroelectricity (electricity produced by water power)

Derivation:

hydroelectricity (electricity produced by water power)

 Context examples 

Itaipu Binacional, the world's biggest generator of hydroelectric energy, founded the first biomethane plant that uses a mixture of sewage, grass clippings, and restaurant leftover food as raw material.

(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

Other examples of accumulators include capacitors, compulsators, steam accumulator, wave energy machines, pumped-storage hydroelectric plants.

(Device Energy Storage System Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

A separate study has reported that 140 hydroelectric dams are in operation or under construction along the Amazon basin, and another 288 are planned for the coming years.

(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)