electro
noun
electro
1 American
[ih-lek-troh]
/ ɪˈlɛk troʊ /
noun
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electros
plural
electro-
2
American
electro-
1
British
combining form
-
electric or electrically
electrocardiograph
electrocute
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electrolytic
electroanalysis
electro
2
British
/ ɪˈlɛktrəʊ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of electro1
By shortening
Origin of electro-2
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French electro duo Justice were chosen to do the original score for the new instalment of the "Grand Theft Auto" video game which will be released next month, maker Rockstar Games announced Thursday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
McFadden directly sampled the “Megamix” electro beat on “Storm,” from “The Audience’s Listening,” prefacing the drop with alien sonics before Edan and Mr. Lif deliver their rap verses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Self-taught pianist Belorgey, who was born in Seine-Saint-Denis - just outside of the city of Paris - launched his career in the early 2000s, opening for French electro pioneers Daft Punk.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
"Industrial, electro combined? Gonna be mental," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026
Compounds unless very unusual, beginning with deutero, electro, pseudo, sulpho, thermo, etc., are run solid; electrotype, pseudonym, thermostat.
From Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
This aspect of the study is puzzling, as shallow insertion of needles at acupuncture points combined with electro- stimulation would be most definitely be regarded as treatment by trained practitioners.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2010
Prior to 1886 the refining of copper was the only electro- metallurgical industry and at that time it was carried on on a very limited scale.
From The Story of Electricity by John Munro
Beyond them, out near the end of the extension-arm, the electro- magnetic cranes of the huge main traveller were sorting and shifting forward a great heap of structural steel.
From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet
In no department of the application of electricity to practical work has there been a greater development than in electro- metallurgy and electro-chemistry.
From The Story of Electricity by John Munro
This "electro- motograph" receiver was, however, given up, and a combination of the Edison transmitter and the Bell receiver came into use.
From The Story of Electricity by John Munro
My brain whirls with tiles, mosaics, tesseræ, bell-castings, bell-marks, and mottos, electros, squeezes, rubbings, etc., etc.
From Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Horatia K. F. Eden
The smaller cases are sufficient to hold many of the usual small fonts, as well as the ordinary auxiliary material, like type borders, ornaments, small electros, etc.
From Type Cases and Composing-room furniture by A. A. Stewart
If you could write up to some electros we have of a comic German Christmas party so much the better.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 by Various
In a direction with the radii of these dials there are four superposed levers, each of which is actuated by one of the electros.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various
Also all the silver spoons, the electros being turned out upon the heap as “non-negotiables.”
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
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