different between hermetic vs vacuum

English

Alternative forms

• hermetical
• hermetick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin hermeticus, irregular derivation of Hermes Trismegistus, the god and mythological alchemist, said to possess a magic ability to seal treasure chests so that nothing could access their contents.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?(?)?m?t?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

hermetic (comparative more hermetic, superlative most hermetic)

1. (chiefly with capital initial) Pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus or the writings attributed to him.
2. Pertaining to alchemy or occult practices; magical, alchemical.
3. Hermetically sealed.
4. Isolated, away from outside influence.
   • 2013, Martin S. Alexander, "Fighting to the last Frenchman", in Joel Blatt (ed), The French Defeat Of 1940: Reassessments, page 325, ?ISBN.

     Increasingly isolated in the military's hermetic world, as winter stretched endlessly onward, Gamelin was finally overcome by an insidious complacency in the adequacy of his fellow generals, their British counterparts and his own troops.

   • 2011, Vivian Sobchack, "When the ear dreams", in Jacques Khalip and Robert Mitchell (eds), Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media, page 130, ?ISBN.

     Thus, in concert with the privatization, intensification, and amplification of digitized sound, the digitized imagery renders not only the immensity, intimacy, and heightened detail of reverie but also the surrounding vagueness of its internalized and hermetic space.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “hermetic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Alternative forms

• vacuüm (rare)

Etymology

From Latin vacuum (“an empty space, void”), noun use of neuter of vacuus (“empty”), related to vacare (“be empty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?væ.kju?m/, /?væ.kju?.?m/

Noun

vacuum (plural vacuums or (rare) vacua) (see usage notes)

1. A region of space that contains no matter.
2. (plural only "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner.
3. 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.

   a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch

4. (physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude

Usage notes

• The Latin in vacuo is sometimes used instead of in a vacuum (in free space).

Synonyms

• (a region of space that contains no matter): vacancy, void
• (vacuum cleaner): hoover (British)

Antonyms

• (region of space that contains no matter): plenum

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

vacuum (third-person singular simple present vacuums, present participle vacuuming, simple past and past participle vacuumed)

1. (transitive) To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
2. (intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner.
3. (transitive, databases) To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.

Synonyms

• (transitive sense): to hoover (British)
• (intransitive sense): to do the hoovering, to hoover (British)

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.k??m/

Noun

vacuum m (plural vacuums)

1. vacuum (space containing no matter)

Synonyms

• vide

Descendants

• Turkish: vakum

Further reading

• “vacuum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

vacuum

1. accusative neuter singular of vacuus

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin vacuum

Noun

vacuum n (plural vacuumuri)

1. vacuum

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• vácuum (recommended)

Noun

vacuum m (plural vacuums)

1. vacuum