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
Example Sentences
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No one quite knew what to expect from Saturday’s re-vamped collaboration between veteran industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails and their recent tourmate, the German electro producer Boys Noize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
"Industrial, electro combined? Gonna be mental," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026
It has the squelchy bounce of the early-’80s hip-hop offshoot electro, yet Mr. Parker’s searing guitar lead seems dropped in from a Santana album of the decade prior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The electro magnetic spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infra-red, and visible light.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
His neckcloth's like the snaw-drift; his frill like down of swan; His watch-chain is the smartest electro e'er shone on, Electro e'er shone on!
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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
As long as this action is proceeding, as long, that is, as some of the more electro- positive material is present, the less electro-positive material will not suffer.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
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
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
The publishers whose Marks are included in the chapter on “Modern Examples” are also thanked for the courtesy and readiness with which they placed electros at my disposal.
From Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography by W. (William) Roberts
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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