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单词 hydrology
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hydrologyn.

Brit. /hʌɪˈdrɒlədʒi/, U.S. /haɪˈdrɑlədʒi/
Etymology: < modern Latin hydrologia, < Greek ὑδρο- water: see -logy comb. form. Compare French hydrologie.
1. The science which treats of water, its properties and laws, its distribution over the earth's surface, etc.
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1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. I. 49 Wallerius was the first who made accurate enquiries into the Aqueous Kingdom, or Hydrology.
1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Hydrology, is that part of natural history which examines and explains the nature and properties of water in general.
1869 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1865–8 10 209 Mr. Blackwell's memoir entitled ‘The Hydrology of the St. Laurence’.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 7/2 The whole science of hydrology..depends on the study of rainfall.
2. Medicine. The branch of medicine concerned with treatment by baths and waters. rare.[Cf. quots. 1670, 1716 at hydrological adj. ]
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > hydrotherapeutics
hydrotherapeutics1842
hydrology1850
balneology1883
1850 J. Bell (title) Dietetical and medical hydrology. A treatise on baths;..with a description of bathing in ancient and modern times.
1913 R. F. Fox (title) The principles and practice of medical hydrology being the science of treatment by waters and baths.

Derivatives

hyˈdrologist n. [compare French hydrologue] one skilled in hydrology.
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1830 in S. Maunder Dict. Eng. Lang.
1938 Times 19 Feb. 13/2 With Papanin..on Franz Josef Land..were P. P. Shirshoff, a hydrologist and hydrobiologist, E. K. Federoff, [etc.].
1971 Nature 30 July 301/1 Flood, erosion, drought and pollution..are also the chief problems facing the hydrologist.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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