exsuction
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin ex(s)ugō, ex(s)uctum (“to suck out”), from ex (“out”) + sugō (“to suck”). Equivalent to ex- + suction.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]exsuction (plural exsuctions)
- (archaic) The act of sucking out.
- 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 26]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, page 202:
- VVe thought it not amiſs to try if a Pendulum vvould ſvving faſter, or continue ſvvinging longer in our Receiver, in caſe of the exſuction of the Air, then othervviſe.
References
[edit]- “exsuction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.