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devacuation

devacuation noun: loss or removal of vacuum (“reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere”).

Noun

devacuation (countable and uncountable, plural devacuations)

  1. Loss or removal of vacuum (“reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere”).
    • 1963, B. W. Spear, D. E. Powell, Kimcode, a method for controlling devacuations of television tubes, IEEE Trans Broadcast Telev. Receivers, 1963, 9, 25
    • […] 1960 shows an increase in resistance from 22 to 30 ohms which was related to a loss in vacuum. It can be seen that in this case, over the period of the latter 4 years, the total frequency change due to both devacuation and ageing ...1964, Proceedings of the ... Annual Symposium on Frequency Control

Forms of devacuation

pluraldevacuations

Origin of devacuation

From de- + vacuation.

Questions about devacuation

What does devacuation mean?
Devacuation means loss or removal of vacuum (“reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere”).
What part of speech is devacuation?
Devacuation is a noun.
What is the plural of devacuation?
The plural of devacuation is devacuations.

Words near devacuation in the dictionary

  1. devachans
  2. devacuate
  3. devacuated
  4. devacuates
  5. devacuating
  6. devacuation
  7. devacuations
  8. devacuumization
  9. devadasi
  10. devadasis
  11. Devadatta

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