- plural of vacuum.
vacua
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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In reality, however, the sum of our actions and cognitions is no series of facts and intervening vacua, but a continuous stream.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Since then I have pushed the matter still farther, and have succeeded in obtaining with my apparatus vacua as high as 1/390,000,000 without finding that the limit of its action had been reached.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various
Gauge correction.—It is necessary to apply to the results thus obtained a correction which becomes very important when high vacua are measured.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various
Dr. W. Crookes has made many beautiful experiments on the behaviour of the molecules of attenuated matter in vacua.
From Creation and Its Records by Baden Henry Baden-Powell
In the July number of this Journal for 1880, I gave a short account of certain changes in the Sprengel-pump by means of which far better vacua could be obtained than had been previously possible.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various
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