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devacuate

devacuate verb: to (cause to) cease to be a vacuum.

Verb

devacuate (third-person singular simple present devacuates, present participle devacuating, simple past and past participle devacuated)

  1. To (cause to) cease to be a vacuum.
    • Upon breakage the envelope is permitted to devacuate contrallably without deleterious fragmentation of its side walls.1960, Glass Technology
    • First acquire a defunct oscilloscope C.R.T. of the flat face variety and devacuate it. The method I used to devacuate is as follows : First wrap the C.R.T. in a blanket, with only the extreme socket end exposed. Next, with the base pointed away from yourself, gently file a minute hole in the...1976, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal, volume 32, page 71

Examples of devacuate in a sentence

  • First acquire a defunct oscilloscope C.R.T. of the flat face variety and devacuate it.1976, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal, volume 32, page 71:
  • With these implosion systems, breakage of the faceplate causes the tube to devacuate quietly and safely without a violent implosion.1992, K. Blair Benson, Television Engineering Handbook: Featuring HDTV Systems, McGraw-Hill Companies:
  • With these implosion systems, breakage of the faceplate causes the tube to devacuate without a violent implosion.1994, Jerry C. Whitaker, Electronic Displays: Technology, Design, and Applications, McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing:

Forms of devacuate

third-person singular presentdevacuates
present participledevacuating
past participledevacuated
pastdevacuated

Origin of devacuate

From de- + vacuate.

Questions about devacuate

What does devacuate mean?
Devacuate means to (cause to) cease to be a vacuum.
How do you use devacuate in a sentence?
First acquire a defunct oscilloscope C.R.T. of the flat face variety and devacuate it.
What part of speech is devacuate?
Devacuate is a verb.
What is the past tense of devacuate?
The past tense of devacuate is devacuated.

Words near devacuate in the dictionary

  1. dev.
  2. deva
  3. devachan
  4. devachanic
  5. devachans
  6. devacuate
  7. devacuated
  8. devacuates
  9. devacuating
  10. devacuation
  11. devacuations

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