ultravacuum

noun

Etymology

From ultra- + vacuum.

  1. derived from vacuum
  2. borrowed from vacuum
  3. prefixed as ultravacuum — “ultra + vacuum

Definitions

  1. A nearly perfect vacuum

    A nearly perfect vacuum; i.e. an almost or fully complete absence of matter, especially a gas at very low pressure.

    • These lines are so-called “‘forbidden”’ lines which, in the crowded conditions even in a laboratory vacuum, would not appear; in the ultravacuum of a nebula, the atoms have no choice but to emit the forbidden energy.

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