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pumpless

pumpless adjective: without a pump.

Adjective

pumpless (not comparable)

  1. Without a pump.
    • Between Paris and Lyons the substation rectifiers were multi-anode units with vacuum pumps, either water- or air-cooled (the pumpless type having come later into general use on the Continent than in Britain and being first used for main-line traction in France in 1953).1963 September, “A decade of French electrification progress”, in Modern Railways, page 193

Origin of pumpless

From pump + -less.

Questions about pumpless

What does pumpless mean?
Pumpless means without a pump.
What part of speech is pumpless?
Pumpless is an adjective.

Words near pumpless in the dictionary

  1. pumpkinseeds
  2. pumpkintini
  3. pumpkintinis
  4. Pumpkintown
  5. pumpkiny
  6. pumpless
  7. pumplex
  8. pumplexes
  9. pumplike
  10. pumpman
  11. pumpmen

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