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vacuum
vacuum is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.
- 2noun
The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch.
- 3noun
an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
- 4noun
a region that is devoid of matter
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- 5noun
an empty area or space
"the huge desert voids"
"the emptiness of outer space"
- 6noun
the absence of matter
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- 7verb
clean with a vacuum cleaner
"vacuum the carpets"
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