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intervacuum

UK/ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/

intervacuum noun: an intervening empty space; a vacant interval.

Noun

intervacuum (plural intervacua)

  1. An intervening empty space; a vacant interval.
    • In the distribution of the Animals themselves, the Subjects and the products of this energy, into the principal Classes, we do not suppose chasms & intervacua or empty Interspaces between the Classes, but ascend from a lower to a higher by an interliminary — and the same principle holds good in the...1827 April, Samuel Taylor Coleridge [aut.], and Kathleen Coburn and Anthony John Harding [eds.], The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume V: “1827–1834”, part 1: ‘Text’, (2002, Princeton...

Adjective

intervacuum (not comparable)

  1. Between regions of vacuum (or of very low pressure)
    • UHV technique for intervacuum sample transfer...1990, Gerardo Beni, Vacuum mechatronics
    • The intervacuum space was monitored continuously, a change in pressure implied to a rupture of the isolation between this volume and either the torus or waveguide vacuums.2003, Gerardo Giruzzi, EC-12: proceedings of the 12th Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission...

Forms of intervacuum

pluralintervacua

Origin of intervacuum

Formed as inter- + vacuum, but compare the Latin intervacō (“to be empty between”).

Questions about intervacuum

What does intervacuum mean?
Intervacuum means an intervening empty space; a vacant interval.
What part of speech is intervacuum?
Intervacuum can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce intervacuum?
Intervacuum is pronounced /ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/ (UK).
What is the plural of intervacuum?
The plural of intervacuum is intervacua.

Words near intervacuum in the dictionary

  1. interurbans
  2. interuser
  3. interuterine
  4. interutricular
  5. intervacua
  6. intervacuum
  7. intervaginal
  8. intervaginally
  9. interval
  10. interval class
  11. interval classes

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