vacuums

Verb

vacuum (third-person singular simple present vacuums, present participle vacuuming, simple past and past participle vacuumed)

1. (transitive) To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
   • “Who in the world cleans an attic? That's like vacuuming a shed.”2016, Janice M. Whiteaker, Run

   Synonyms:

   hoover

2. (intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner.

   Synonyms:

   to do the hoovering, to hoover

3. (transitive) To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.
   • But the advantage of an auto-vacuumed database is that when B-tree pages are no longer needed, they are moved to the end of the database file and then the database file is truncated, thus returning the unused pages back to the filesystem.2010, Ivan Litovski, Richard Maynard, Inside Symbian SQL: A Mobile Developer's Guide to SQLite, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 337

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