Vacuum
A vacuum is a
volume of
space that is essentially empty of
matter, such that its gaseous
pressure is much less than standard
atmospheric pressure. The Latin term in vacuo is used to describe an object as being in what would otherwise be a vacuum. The root of the word vacuum is the
Latin adjective vacuus which means "empty," but space can never be perfectly empty. A perfect vacuum with a gaseous pressure of absolute zero is a philosophical concept that is never observed in practice, not least because
quantum theory predicts that no volume of space can be perfectly empty in this way.
Physicists often use the term "vacuum" slightly differently. They discuss ideal test results that would occur in a perfect vacuum, which they simply call "vacuum" or "
free space" in this context, and use the term partial vacuum to refer to the imperfect vacua realized in practice.
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vacuo
adj.
vacuous, empty, vacant, hollow, inane
vacuo
adj.
empty, vacuous, hollow, void
vacuo (m)
n.
hiatus, pause or break (in activity, time, etc.); opening
vácuo (m)
n.
chasm; inane, emptiness; vacancy; vacuum, void
vacuo
V
empty