hydraulic ram

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   a water pump that uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to force a small fraction of that water to a reservoir at a higher level

   Synonymshydraulic pump

   Broaderpump

Questions about hydraulic ram

What does hydraulic ram mean?

hydraulic ram means "a water pump that uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to force a small fraction of that water to a reservoir at a higher level".

What is another word for hydraulic ram?

Close synonyms include hydraulic pump. 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 ram a common word?

hydraulic ram 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.