Hydrid

See also: hydrid

English

Etymology

From 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^[1], volume 12, page 10:

     a similarly bright meteor at 12^h 33^m 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^[2]:

     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.

German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Hydrid n (strong, genitive Hydrids, plural Hydride)

1. (chemistry) hydride

Declension

Declension of Hydrid [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Hydrid	die	Hydride
genitive	eines	des	Hydrids	der	Hydride
dative	einem	dem	Hydrid	den	Hydriden
accusative	ein	das	Hydrid	die	Hydride

Further reading

• “Hydrid” in Duden online