Definitions for vacuum

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vacuum vac·u·um

Spelling: [vak-yoom, -yoo-uh m, -yuh m]

IPA: /ˈvæk yum, -yu əm, -yəm/

Vacuum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in vacuum (acmuuv).

Definitions for vacuum

noun

1. a space entirely devoid of matter.
2. an enclosed space from which matter, especially air, has been partially removed so that the matter or gas remaining in the space exerts less pressure than the atmosphere (opposed to plenum).
3. the state or degree of exhaustion in such an enclosed space.
4. a space not filled or occupied; emptiness; void:
5. a vacuum cleaner or sweeper.
6. Physics. a state of lowest energy in a quantum field theory.

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, employing, or producing a vacuum.
2. (of a hollow container) partly exhausted of gas or air.
3. pertaining to a device or process that makes use of a vacuum to accomplish a desired task.
4. noting or pertaining to canning or packaging in which air is removed from the container to prevent deterioration of the contents.

verb (used with object)

1. to use a vacuum cleaner on; clean with a vacuum cleaner:
2. to treat with any vacuum device, as a vacuum drier.

verb (used without object)

1. to use a vacuum cleaner:

Origin of vacuum

1540-50; Latin, neuter of vacuus empty

Examples for vacuum

We found that even in cases where individuals acted alone, in an operational sense, they were not radicalized in a vacuum.

There are also drones which vacuum the wireless spectrum, picking up tweets, emails, and Skype chats.

His first search was for a durable filament which would burn in a vacuum.

Yes, it must be that this land is a vacuum, such as I read of when I was a girl in school.

Plato affirms, almost in so many words, that nature abhors a vacuum.

In a vacuum (translation: but for Obama), this could be a killer year for Democrats.

Rather, he is pointing out what should be obvious but is too often ignored: The court does not operate in a vacuum.

As for Philip, all seemed a mere negation; there was a vacuum where his place had been.

But as Feldman argues, “Nobody raises their child in a vacuum.”

There were only a Ruhmkorff coil and Crookes (vacuum) tube and the man himself.