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vacuum pump

noun

Definition of vacuum pump

: a pump for exhausting gas from an enclosed space

Examples of vacuum pump in a Sentence

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 One day the vacuum pump blew up on me and I was covered in pump oil. — Quanta Magazine, "‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence," 8 Mar. 2017 The vacuum chamber at Glenn is currently the only one in the country with a vacuum pump system that can handle the X3, which produces too much exhaust for other chambers. — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, "'Mars Engine' Shatters Records for Ion Propulsion," 24 Oct. 2017

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First Known Use of vacuum pump

1844, in the meaning defined above

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