vacuum pump

English

Etymology

From vacuum +‎ pump.

Noun

vacuum pump (plural vacuum pumps)

1. A piece of equipment used for extraction of gas or vapour from an enclosed space, leaving the container with a partial vacuum.

Translations

equipment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 真空泵 (zh) (zhēnkōngbèng)

• Dutch: vacuümpomp (nl) f
• Finnish: tyhjiöpumppu
• Greek: αντλία κενού f (antlía kenoú)

Further reading

• vacuum pump on Wikipedia.Wikipedia