hydration

The process of giving your body enough water to work well.

• Water helps maintain hydration.
• Good hydration matters during long runs.
• The nurse checked his hydration after the illness.

Opposites: dehydration

Common phrases: proper hydration, maintain hydration, skin hydration

A reaction with water that releases heat and makes materials such as cement become hard.

• Cement hydration releases heat.
• Cold weather slows the hydration of concrete.
• The engineer measured temperatures during hydration.

Common phrases: cement hydration, heat of hydration

The joining of water molecules to another substance’s molecules.

• The diagram shows the hydration of an ion.
• Hydration changes how these molecules interact.
• Students measured the heat released during hydration of the salt.

Common phrases: hydration shell, ion hydration

The process of filling a software object with data from another source.

• Hydration fills the object with stored data.
• The framework handles hydration after each database query.
• We found a missing field during object hydration.

Common phrases: object hydration, hydration of objects