Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
of or relating to or used in the production of electricity by waterpower;
- Example: "hydroelectric power"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hydro-electric \Hy`dro-e*lec"tric\, a. [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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hydroelectric
adj 1: of or relating to or used in the production of
electricity by waterpower; "hydroelectric power"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "hydroelectric":
battery-powered, dynamoelectric, electric, electric-powered,
electrified, electrifying, electrochemical, electrodynamic,
electrokinetic, electromechanical, electrometric, electromotive,
electropneumatic, electrostatic, electrothermal, galvanic,
galvanometric, photoelectric, piezoelectric, static, voltaic