vacuum

nounemptiness

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noun emptiness

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fullness

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Word Origin & History

1540s, "emptiness of space," from Latin vacuum "an empty space, void," noun use of neuter of vacuus "empty," related to vacare "be empty" (see vain). Properly a loan-translation of Greek kenon, literally "that which is empty." Meaning "a place emptied of air" is attested from 1650s. Vacuum tube is attested from 1859. Vacuum cleaner is from 1903; shortened form vacuum (n.) first recorded 1910.

Example Sentences for vacuum

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

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

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

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

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

They seemed to lie in a vacuum, in the very hollow of the storm.

A place from which the air is practically all pumped out is called a vacuum.

The air from all sides rushes into the vacuum and collides there; then it bounces back.

The vacuum keeps any conducted heat from getting out of the bottle or into it.

But, as you know, radiant heat can flash right through a vacuum.

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