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in vacuo

in vacuo adverb: in a partial or full vacuum.

Adverb

in vacuo

  1. In a partial or full vacuum.
    • The distillation is performed in vacuo to avoid decomposition of the compounds under study.
  2. (figuratively) Out of context.
    • Their own mental capacity to examine what they saw was sufficient. Nothing was obscene in vacuo.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 106
    • But we don't understand sentences like this in vacuo. We understand them relative to certain larger categories of experience […]1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 24, in Metaphors We Live By

in vacuo meaning in Tamil and Kannada

in vacuo in Tamil

வெற்றிடத்தில்

in vacuo in Kannada

ಶೂನ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ, ನಿರ್ವಾತ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ

Origin of in vacuo

From Latin in vacuō (“in vacuum”).

Questions about in vacuo

What does in vacuo mean?
In vacuo means in a partial or full vacuum.
What is in vacuo in Tamil?
In vacuo in Tamil is வெற்றிடத்தில். See In vacuo meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is in vacuo?
In vacuo is an adverb.

Words near in vacuo in the dictionary

  1. in use
  2. in utero
  3. in utramque parte
  4. in utramque partem
  5. in utrumque partes
  6. in vacuo
  7. in vain
  8. in very deed
  9. in view
  10. in view of
  11. in vigilance

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