hybrid
the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species, or genera, especially as produced through human manipulation for specific genetic characteristics.
a person or group of persons produced by the interaction or crossbreeding of two unlike cultures, traditions, etc.
anything derived from heterogeneous sources, or composed of elements of different or incongruous kinds: a hybrid of the academic and business worlds.
a word composed of elements originally drawn from different languages, as television, whose components come from Greek and Latin.
something that is powered by more than one source of power: a wind-solar hybrid to generate electricity.
a car or other vehicle that combines an internal-combustion engine with one or more electric motors powered by a battery: She says she's proud to be driving a hybrid.
bred from two distinct breeds, varieties, species, or genera.
composite; formed or composed of heterogeneous elements.
composed of elements originally drawn from different languages, as a word.
powered by more than one source of power: It is hoped that hybrid buses will reduce urban air pollution.
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How to use hybrid in a sentence
Even then, both said they’ll be implementing a hybrid model.
Future of Work Forum recap: Coronavirus crisis forcing leadership to evolve | Digiday Editors | February 12, 2021 | DigidayWe use a new kind of hybrid hardware-software evolutionary architecture for design.
We’re Teaching Robots to Evolve Autonomously—So They Can Adapt to Life Alone on Distant Planets | Emma Hart | February 4, 2021 | Singularity HubBoth plans also call for all students who select hybrid learning to begin heading into classrooms next month.
Virginia’s largest school systems vow to reopen classrooms for all by March | Hannah Natanson | February 3, 2021 | Washington PostFurthermore, Omnispace is a hybrid network using a mix of different technologies, whereas Starlink is focused only on space deployment.
Omnispace raises $60M to fuse satellites and 5G into one ubiquitous network | Danny Crichton | February 2, 2021 | TechCrunchSimilarly, we’ve seen many districts design bizarrely untenable hybrid models, like models where students “beam in” from home while a teacher juggles in-person and remote needs simultaneously.
Teacher: What Americans keep getting wrong about our unions during the pandemic | Valerie Strauss | February 2, 2021 | Washington Post
Manufacturers are busily introducing new models of all-electric and hybrid cars.
So it was fun to see how they strung those together and had the hybrid between live-action and animation.
How Carrie Preston Became The Good Wife’s Favorite Scene Stealer | Kevin Fallon | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe hugely popular website Weibo, a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, was blocked.
Well, apparently, neither is Dunham, who on Tuesday will release her advice book/memoir hybrid, Not That Kind of Girl.
Speed Read: Lena Dunham’s Most Shocking Confessions From ‘Not That Kind of Girl’ | Kevin Fallon | September 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith each passing month, about 11,000 new all-electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles hit the road.
A fellow rudely clad—a hybrid between man-at-arms and lackey—lounged on a musket to confront them in the gateway.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniMike dearly loved cauliflowers, and babied ours as a flower gardener babies his hybrid tea roses.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonIn truth, this peculiar and highly complex hybrid combined strains of manifold varieties.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo GozziThis individual, whom it was easy at once to recognise as a mameluco hybrid, wore the costume of the sertanejos.
The Guide of the Desert | Gustave AimardIf such hybrid children marry feeble-minded persons, one half of the offspring will be feeble-minded.
The Science of Human Nature | William Henry Pyle
British Dictionary definitions for hybrid
/ (ˈhaɪbrɪd) /
an animal or plant resulting from a cross between genetically unlike individuals. Hybrids between different species are usually sterile
anything of mixed ancestry
a vehicle that is powered by an internal-combustion engine and another source of power such as a battery
a word, part of which is derived from one language and part from another, such as monolingual, which has a prefix of Greek origin and a root of Latin origin
(of a vehicle) powered by more than one source
denoting or being a hybrid; of mixed origin
physics (of an electromagnetic wave) having components of both electric and magnetic field vectors in the direction of propagation
electronics
(of a circuit) consisting of transistors and valves
(of an integrated circuit) consisting of one or more fully integrated circuits and other components, attached to a ceramic substrate: Compare monolithic (def. 3)
Origin of hybrid
1Derived forms of hybrid
- hybridism, noun
- hybridity, noun
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Scientific definitions for hybrid
[ hī′brĭd ]
An organism that is the offspring of two parents that differ in one or more inheritable characteristics, especially the offspring of two different varieties of the same species or the offspring of two parents belonging to different species. In agriculture and animal husbandry, hybrids of different varieties and species are bred in order to combine the favorable characteristics of the parents. Hybrids often display hybrid vigor. The mule, which is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, is an example of a hybrid. It is strong for its size and has better endurance and a longer useful lifespan than its parents. However, mules are sterile, as are many animals that are hybrids between two species.
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