partial vacuum

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an enclosed space from which part of the air or another gas has been removed.

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Despite the financial remedy, partial repeal of the screen quota has imperiled the domestic market.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea|Rich Goldstein|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.
The 2014 Novel of the Year|Nathaniel Rich|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Or perhaps Understanding, Partial Ignorance, and Total Ignorance.
Extreme Weather? Blame the End Times|Jay Michaelson|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A better taxonomy would break us up by words like Acceptance, Partial Denial, and Total Denial.
Extreme Weather? Blame the End Times|Jay Michaelson|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Kundera sees fiction as a realm of many partial truths, its only certainty “the wisdom of uncertainty.”
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Granular and fatty casts, therefore, always indicate partial or complete disintegration of the renal epithelium.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The 'whole' of him that now dealt with Lettice was far above all minor and partial means of knowing.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
Its first cost and expense in working to be much less than that of the Watt low-pressure steam vacuum engine.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
The Wheal Prosper 16-inch pole high-pressure expansive steam vacuum engine commenced its up-stroke with steam of 100 lbs.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
We merely tell thus much to account for her position and her partial refinement—both of which conditions she shared with Susan.
The Garret and the Garden|R.M. Ballantyne