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vacua

[ vak-yoo-uh ]

noun

  1. a plural of vacuum.


vacua

/ ˈæʊə /

noun

  1. a plural of vacuum
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

With disruptive discharge coils there are sudden rises of potential and the vacua are more quickly impaired, for the electrodes are deteriorated in a very short time.

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In reality, however, the sum of our actions and cognitions is no series of facts and intervening vacua, but a continuous stream.

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Hittorf examined the phenomena exhibited in so-called high vacua, that is, in exceedingly rarefied gases.

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Trent settled deeper in his chair, his eyes lifted to the roaring funnels where volumes of smoke were sucked up as by invisible vacua.

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In nearly all pumps for producing the high vacua necessary, e.g. for the electric glow-lamp and the X-ray tube, mercury is employed.

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