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How to pronounce “vacuum”
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Pronunciation guide for vacuum
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of vacuum with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Idea Factory
His first job at Bell Labs, or his first big job, was to be in charge of vacuum tube development.
- Definition summary
- A region of space that contains no matter.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce vacuum
The Idea Factory

His first job at Bell Labs, or his first big job, was to be in charge of vacuum tube development.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “vacuum”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A region of space that contains no matter.
- The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
- (colloquial, only pluralized as "vacuums") Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.
- (physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
- (physics) A ground state of a quantum field or of local spacetime, or more abstractly the lowest-energy state of a system.
- An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
- An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
- (intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner.
- (transitive, databases) To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.
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