Hybrid Explained
Hybrid may refer to:
Science
Technology
Transportation
Electricity and electronics
- Hybrid generator, an electric power system comprising two or more generators that supply power to a single output
- Hybrid power, the combination of a power producer and the means to store that power in an energy storage medium
- Hybrid power source, a stand-alone power system that operates independently of a larger power grid network
- Hybrid coil, a type of electrical transformer
- Hybrid coupler, a passive device used in radio and telecommunications
- Hybrid integrated circuit, a miniaturized electronic circuit combining different semiconductor devices and passive components on a substrate
- Hybrid mass spectrometer, a combination of m/z separation devices of different types
- Telephone hybrid, a type of telephone circuit
- Three-way hybrid, a device to converge content delivered via three different video transport networks
Computing
- Hybrid laptop or hybrid tablet, a cross between a tablet computer and a laptop, running mobile operating system
- Hybrid computer, a computer combining analog and digital features
- Hybrid graphics, discrete and integrated graphics processing units
- Hybrid drive, a device that combines a solid-state drive with hard disk drive
Materials
Arts, entertainment and media
Fictional entities
Films
Games
Music
- Hybrid (British band), an electronic music group
- Hybrid (Spanish band), an extreme metal band
- Hybrid (Michael Brook album), a 1985 album by Michael Brook featuring the infinite guitar, or the title track
- Hybrid (Gary Numan album), a 2002 album consisting of songs by Gary Numan remixed by other artists, or the title track
- Hybrid Theory, the debut album of Linkin Park, who was once known by the same name
- Hybrids (album), a 1999 remix album by The Creatures
- Hybrid Black, the 2019 12th studio album by Balzac
- Hybrid (Collie Buddz album), a 2019 reggae, hip-hop album by Collie Buddz
- "Hybrid", a song by Lil Yachty from his 2021 mixtape Michigan Boy Boat
- Hybrid Recordings, a record label that is a division of Metropolitan Talent
Other arts, entertainment and media
- Hybrid genre, a blend of different categories of art or culture
- Hybrids (novel), a book in the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer
Sports
- Hybrid (golf), a golf club that has the characteristics between a wood and an iron
- Hybrid martial arts, fighting systems that incorporate techniques and theories from several martial arts
Other uses
- Blended learning, also known as hybrid learning, an educational model where some students attend class in-person, while others join the class virtually from home
- Hybrid beasts in folklore, mythological or folkloric creatures that combination of different animals
- Hybrid Graphics, often "Hybrid", a former graphics software company in Helsinki, Finland
- Hybrid library, a library containing a mix of print and electronic resources
- Hybrid mail, mail delivered using a combination of electronic and physical methods
- Hybrid market, a system allowing stock trades to be completed either electronically or manually
- Hybrid organization, an organization that mixes elements of various sectors of society
- Hybrid (people), used to describe people of mixed ancestry in colonial empires, now considered offensive
- Hybrid security, a type of economic instrument
- Hybrid warfare, a military strategy
- Hybrid word, a word derived from more than one language
- Remote work, also known as hybrid work, the practice of working from elsewhere than in an office
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