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vacuum
- /ˈvæ.kjuːm/
- /ˈvæ.kjuː.əm/ dated
Where it comes from
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”).
The exercise sense comes from analogy to the sucking action of a vacuum cleaner.
noun vacuums · vacua · vacuüm
- A region of space that contains no matter. The Wards are open-topped, with skyscrapers rising from the superstructure. Towers are sealed against vacuum, as the breathable atmosphere envelope is only maintained to a height of about seven meters. The atmosphere is contained by the centrifugal force of rotation and a "membrane" of dense, colorl
- 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. a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch
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Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner
Similar: hoover
- A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
- A ground state of a quantum field or of local spacetime, or more abstractly the lowest-energy state of a system.
- A description of spacetime resulting from a particular compactification of spatial dimensions.
- An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation. Henrietta soon found a terrible vacuum left, by the letters in which she used to pour forth every feeling and thought to her uncle.
- An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine. Abs show up in a most-muscular shot, a vacuum shot, the hands-behind-head compulsory ab shot, twisting poses, and so on.
Similar: vacuum state
verb vacuums · vacuuming · vacuumed · vacuüm
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To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
“Who in the world cleans an attic? That's like vacuuming a shed.”
Similar: hoover
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To use a vacuum cleaner.
Similar: to do the hoovering, to hoover
- To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples. But the advantage of an auto-vacuumed database is that when B-tree pages are no longer needed, they are moved to the end of the database file and then the database file is truncated, thus returning the unused pages back to the filesystem.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: vacuity, vacuum-clean, vacuum cleaner, hoover, void, emptiness, vacancy, vacant, empty, null, meaningless, devoid, nil, lack, none, deficiency
noun
Similar: vacuum state
Translations
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noun region of space that contains no matter
| Español | vacuo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 진공 jin'gong |
| 日本語 | 真空 shinkū |
| 中文 | 真空 zhēnkōng |
| हिन्दी | निर्वात nirvāt |
| Kiswahili | ombwe |
| Português | vácuo |
| Français | vide, vacuum |
| Deutsch | Vakuum |
| Italiano | vuoto |
| Ελληνικά | κενό kenó |
| Română | vid |
| Русский | ва́куум vákuum |
| Tiếng Việt | chân không |
| العربية | خَلَاء ḵalāʔ, فَرَاغ farāḡ, فَضَاء faḍāʔ |
| עברית | ואקום, ריק |
verb transitive: to clean with a vacuum cleaner
| Español | aspirar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 吸塵 /吸尘 xīchén |
| Português | aspirar |
| Français | passer l'aspirateur |
| Deutsch | staubsaugen |
| Italiano | aspirapolverare |
| Ελληνικά | σκουπίζω skoupízo |
| Русский | пылесо́сить pylesósitʹ, пропылесо́сить propylesósitʹ |
verb intransitive: to use a vacuum cleaner
| Español | aspirar |
|---|---|
| Português | aspirar |
| Français | passer l'aspirateur |
| Deutsch | staubsaugen |
| Ελληνικά | σκουπίζω skoupízo |
| Русский | пылесо́сить pylesósitʹ, пропылесо́сить propylesósitʹ |
Talk about this word "vacuum." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/vacuum. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. vacuum. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/vacuum "vacuum." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/vacuum.Cite this
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title = {vacuum},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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