Hydrid

See also: hydrid

English

Etymology

Hydra +‎ -id

Noun

Hydrid (plural Hydrids)

  1. (astronomy) Any of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Hydra.
    • 1902, “Section for the Observation of Meteors”, in Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association‎, volume 12, page 10:
      a similarly bright meteor at 12h 33m was probably an α Hydrid
    • 2013, D. Šegon et al., “A possible new meteor shower - η Hydrids”, in WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization‎:
      The radiant analysis that included orbits from the Croatian Meteor Network Catalogues of Orbits 2007 to 2010 plus the orbits from the SonotaCo catalogues for 2007 to 2011 revealed a possible new Hydrid stream with radiant running parallel to, but distinct from, the sigma Hydrids.

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Noun

Hydrid n (strong, genitive Hydrids, plural Hydride)

  1. (chemistry) hydride

Declension

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