Hybrid

Hybrid may mean: Combining two or more different entities or things to aim one object or a thing.

Science

• In biology, Hybrids refer to the offspring resulting from cross-breeding of different species.
• In economics, Hybrid security, combines elements of debt and equity
• In linguistics, Hybrid word, a word with mixed etymologies.
• Hybrid system word a mixture of two or more systems or elements.
• In chemistry, Orbital hybridisation.
• Resistance hybrid or a hybrid coil.

Transportation

• Hybrid vehicle, uses a mixture of power or fuel sources such as internal combustion engines, electric motors, pneumatics, or hydraulics.
  • Hybrid electric vehicle, increasingly common automobiles which employ both a traditional internal combustion engine and an electric motor/generators for provide motive force. See also Hybrid Vehicle Drivetrains and List of hybrid vehicles.
  • Dual-mode vehicle is yet another name given/article about Hybrid automobiles.
  • Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is similar to a traditional hybrid automobile except that it is capable of using common liquid fuels as well as electricity as fuel sources.
  • Flexible-fuel vehicle are hybrid or dual-fuel vehicles.
  • Motorized bicycle, a bicycle powered by human and another power source such as liquid fuels or electricity.
  • Hybrid bicycle, a cross between a road and mountain bicycle.
  • Hybrid locomotive, a locomotive with more than one power source.
• Hybrid rocket, which uses solid fuel and a liquid or gas oxidizer.

Electricity, telecoms and computing

• Hybrid CD, a CD containing multiple file systems.
• Hybrid circuit, consists of several electronic components encapsulated into one unit.
• Hybrid client, a mixed client/server architecture combining thin client and fat client features.
• Hybrid computer, combining features of analog computers and digital computers.
• Hybrid coupler, a type of directional coupler used in radio and telecommunications, described in the Power dividers and directional couplers article.
• Hybrid course, uses a combination of teaching delivery methods: face to face (FTF) classroom instruction and electronic online delivery, used most frequently in higher education* Hybrid IRCd, a type of Internet Relay Chat server software
• Hybrid kernel, a kernel architecture based on combining aspects of microkernel and monolithic kernel architectures.
• The Hybrid Music System, a range of musical add-ons for the BBC Microcomputer.
• Telephone hybrid, an electronic circuit used in telephones.

Culture

• Hybrid Technologies[1], a Paintball accessory and apparel company.
• Hybrids, the third book in Robert J. Sawyer's The Neanderthal Parallax trilogy.
• Hybrid Spudgun, a potato cannon that ignites a compressed fuel and air mix.
• Hybrid (producers), a British electronic music group.
• Hybrid (Marvel Comics), a name shared by two Marvel Comics characters.
• Hybrid (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillain group.
• Hybrid Theory, an album by Linkin Park.
• Hybrid (role-playing game), a spoof role-playing game
• Hybrid (StarCraft), an artificial race in the StarCraft universe.
• Dalek Human Hybrid|Daleks In Manhattan, A Dalek and Human hybrid created in an experiment in New York.
• Hybrid (subculture), a type of underground culture.