Contextualizebeta

intervacuum

noun
/ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/UK

Etymology

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

  1. derived from vacuum
  2. borrowed from vacuum
  3. prefixed as intervacuum — “inter + vacuum”

Definitions

  1. An intervening empty space

    An intervening empty space; a vacant interval.

  2. Between regions of vacuum (or of very low pressure)

    • UHV technique for intervacuum sample transfer...
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for intervacuum. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA