vacuum

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A region of space that contains no matter.
2. The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis) Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.
4. A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
5. An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
6. An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.

Verb

1. (transitive) To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
2. (intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner.
3. (transitive) To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.

Teenoorgestelde van

plenum

Sinonieme

vacuity

void

emptiness

hoover

vacuum cleaner

vacuum-clean

hollow

vacancy

vac

blank

non-existence

nothingness

rarefaction

space

vacuo

V

✌️

vacuum apparatus

non-entity

vacuum unit

vacuum plant

vacuum tightness

airvoid

autovac

vacuum level

pressure below the atmospheric

degree of vacuum

aspirator

vacuum degree

blankness

blank space

carpet sweeper

clean

download

empty

empty space

hiatus

lacuna

Vertalings

vide

Vakuum

vuoto

vacío

vacuüm

vacuum

κενό

vácuo

buit

staubsaugen

stofzuigen

aspirateur

فراغ

Leere

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈvæ.kjuːm/

Etimologie (Engels)

Borrowed from New Latin vacuum (“vacuum”), a subsense of Classical Latin vacuum (“empty space”), a substantivised form of vacuus (“empty”); related to vacāre (“to be empty”).