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• electro
  electro

  noun

  electrotype.
• electro-
  electro-

  a combining form representing electric or electricity in compound words.

electro

¹ American  

[ih-lek-troh] / ɪˈlɛk troʊ /

noun

• electros
  plural

1. electrotype.

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electro- ² American  

1. a combining form representing electric or electricity in compound words.

   electromagnetic.

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electro- ¹ British  

combining form

1. electric or electrically

   electrocardiograph

   electrocute

2. electrolytic

   electroanalysis

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electro ² British  

/ ɪˈlɛktrəʊ /

noun

1. short for electroplate electrotype

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• electros
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of electro¹

By shortening

Origin of electro-²

electr(ic) + -o-

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Example Sentences

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electro electro- electros

Rockstar posted a new trailer online for "GTA VI" featuring a song from "original score composers Justice", who are best known for their work during the late "French Touch" electro wave of the early 2000s.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

While stage designs vary in boldness, songs range from pop to heavy rock and electro and are performed in diverse languages from Maltese to Albanian.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

That track, along with the rest of her electro and dance-inspired Brat album, inspired a lime green cultural phenomenon that took over 2024.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

Egypt’s brand of electro is as physical as it is mental, the first time you hear it, it’s forever ingrained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

Its power plant and electro machinery went out of commission.

From The Airlords of Han by Frank R. Paul

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

This "secondary" or reacting current is evidently due to the polarisation of the foils—that is to say, the electro- positive and electro-negative gases collected on them.

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

K is more metallic, or electro- positive, than Na, the compounds of Na are more important, and will be considered first.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams

Essentially, everything that runs on electricity emanates a field of energy, an electro- magnetic field.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

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

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

At frequent intervals he was consulted by colleagues as to this and that: covers, jackets, electros, fall catalogues, what not?

From Walking-Stick Papers by Robert Cortes Holliday

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

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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