hydration
Pronunciation: /haɪˈdɹeɪʃən/
The English word “hydration” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- The incorporation of water molecules into a complex with those of another compound.
- The process of providing an adequate amount of water to body tissues.
- The chemical reaction by which a substance (such as cement) combines with water, giving off heat to form a crystalline structure in its setting and hardening.
- The process of populating an object with data loaded from a data source.
- Client-side rendering of pre-rendered static server data, e.g. to make dynamic web pages.
Etymology
From hydrate + -ion. The programming terms come from the concept of data lake.
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