electrohydraulicsn.
/ᵻˌlɛktrəʊhʌɪˈdrɒlɪks/, U.S. /əˌlɛktroʊˌ(h)aɪˈdrɔlɪks/, /iˌlɛktroʊˌ(h)aɪˈdrɔlɪks/ 1. Mechanics. Hydraulics utilizing electric power or control.
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1949 Brit. Patent 615,265 1/1 We, Electro-Hydraulics (Messier) Limited, a Company organised under the laws of Great Britain,..do hereby declare..this invention relates to lift trucks.
1997 Car Mar. 58 Despite a new interior and a bunch of contrite engineers having many many goes at sorting out the electro-hydraulics, the XM differs from its forebears in being a sales failure.
2005 Computers & Electronics Agric. 47 42 Electrohydraulics has been a common type of actuation in power machinery.
2. The use of high-voltage electrical discharges in liquids.
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1966 Science 7 Oct. 155/1 Electrohydraulics is a new process for converting electrical energy directly to other forms of energy. It depends upon the discharge of a high-voltage arc under the surface of a liquid medium.
1998 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 84 6262/1 The methods of electric pulse demolition are electrohydraulics, the use of dielectric material surface flashover [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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