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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

English

Etymology

From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnetum (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek ???????? [?????] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of ???????? (Magn?sía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæ?n?t/
• Homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)

Noun

magnet (plural magnets)

1. A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
2. (informal, figuratively, preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.
   • 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,

     […] I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season.

Derived terms

Related terms

Coordinate terms

• electret (a magnet analog for electric charge)

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on magnets
• Wikipedia article on magnetism

Anagrams

• Getman

Cebuano

Etymology

From English magnet, from Old French magnete, Latin magnetum "lodestone" from Ancient Greek ???????? [?????] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of ???????? (Magn?sía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mag?net

Noun

magnet

1. a magnet

Czech

Etymology

Ancient Greek ???????? (magnêtis)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ma?n?t]

Noun

magnet m

1. magnet

Related terms

• magi?
• magne?ák
• magnetický
• magnetismus
• magnetizovat
• magnetka
• magnetofon
• magnetosféra
• magnetoskop
• magnetovat
• elektromagnet
• elektromagnetický
• elektromagnetismus

Further reading

• magnet in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• magnet in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Middle English

Noun

magnet

1. Alternative form of magnete

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magneter, definite plural magnetene)

1. a magnet

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “magnet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magnetar, definite plural magnetane)

1. a magnet

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “magnet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ne?t/
• Hyphenation: mag?net

Noun

màgn?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

Declension

References

• “magnet” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Noun

magnet c

1. a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

Declension

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