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-vac

-vac suffix: used in the naming of computer systems and computer models, due to the use of vacuum tubes as the functional elements of computers of the time.

Suffix

-vac

  1. (dated, obsolete) Used in the naming of computer systems and computer models, due to the use of vacuum tubes as the functional elements of computers of the time.
  2. Used in the naming of vacuum cleaner models.

Origin of -vac

Clipping of vacuum.

Questions about -vac

What does -vac mean?
-vac means used in the naming of computer systems and computer models, due to the use of vacuum tubes as the functional elements of computers of the time.
What part of speech is -vac?
-vac is a suffix.

Words near -vac in the dictionary

  1. -uria
  2. -ussification
  3. -ussy
  4. -uzz
  5. -v-
  6. -vac
  7. -valent
  8. -vaptan
  9. -varin
  10. -vastatin
  11. -ve

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