hydraulic brake

Questions about hydraulic brake

What does hydraulic brake mean?

hydraulic brake means "brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder; brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes".

What is another word for hydraulic brake?

Close synonyms include hydraulic brakes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hydraulic brake a common word?

hydraulic brake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.