vacuum pump

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noun

a pump or device by which a partial vacuum can be produced.

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Origin of vacuum pump

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby vacuum pump

vacuum gauge, vacuumize, vacuum-pack, vacuum-packed, vacuum pan, vacuum pump, vacuum servo, vacuum tube, VAD, vade mecum, V. Adm.

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How to use vacuum pump in a sentence

A wine vacuum pump removes oxygen from the open bottle to preserve it for longer—it’s the same principle behind most vacuum-sealed foods.
How to keep wine fresh after opening it|Sandra Gutierrez|August 24, 2021|Popular-Science
This will give a hollow branch which may be cut off at any desired point, and is then ready for connection to the vacuum pump.
A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing|Bernard D. Bolas
The straight part of the side tube is then constricted ready for fusing off and the whole affair is placed on the vacuum pump.
On Laboratory Arts|Richard Threlfall
From the point of romance, the world may lose; the vacuum pump cannot vie with the pretty milkmaid of the songs.
The Romance of Modern Mechanism|Archibald Williams

I merely removed the air from the jar with a vacuum pump and the little creature passed out of the picture very quickly.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930|Various
This is kept hot, and whatever moisture is in the rubber is either evaporated or sucked out by a vacuum pump.
Makers of Many Things|Eva March Tappan

British Dictionary definitions for vacuum pump

vacuum pump

noun

a pump for producing a low gas pressure

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vacuum pump

Origin of vacuum pump

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