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By the way, Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003) continues to list a three-syllable pronunciation of vacuum as a secondary (or tertiary) pronunciation of the word, and as late as Webster's New International Dictionary (1909), the dictionary doesn't even bother to provide a pronunciation independent of its prescribed syllable division, presumably because the people at Merriam ...
vacuum: 725,895 matches; earliest confirmed match from the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (July 10, 1803): The walls of the New Bridge are already raised nearly five feet, and are 24 feet asunder, which vacuum will be filled by a solid mound ; and the span of the Arch likewise measures 24 feet.
There's also vacuum. Volume with extremely little matter in it. Volume with extremely little matter in it. Perfect vacuum does not exist - there will always be some energy, some particles manifesting themselves spontaneously from quantum uncertainty, but generally lack of matter, including air is considered vacuum.
2. Most antonyms related to "atmosphere" are going to revolve around specific atmospheres: The atmosphere is inhabitable. — The atmosphere is uninhabitable. The atmosphere/aura in here is electric! — The atmosphere/aura in here is dead. The opposite of having an atmosphere is simply not having one. This could also be described as "vacuum":
4. Programming "in a vacuum", similar to doing anything in said state, is a reference to attempting to perform that task without any outside information of any kind. It is indeed, as others have said, a reference to the vacuum of space, where there is very little if anything to influence the path of an object moving through it.
A simple vacuum tube, a triode, with its heated cathode. Source. As expected with an insulator, electrons cannot move in vacuum, there is no electric current, the impatient electrons must stay on their wire! However, in a vacuum tube there is a way to transfer more energy to the heated electrons packed on the cathode.
Because that is the way they are spelled in their original languages, before being borrowed into English. Vacuum is from Latin, Aardvark from Afrikaans/'South African Dutch', and Llama from Spanish. You might have heard that English is an eclectic language; these three words are a good example. See etymology online: Vacuum. Aardvark. Llama
30. As it is common with people from my country, I have an immense difficulty with prepositions in English, especially with the use of in and on. When the preposition indicates the position of the object it is a bit easier to decide which one to use, but as it requires thinking from me, I still say things like "I put the bill in the fridge ...
Aug 20, 2020 at 5:10. 1. The first sentence is from the story Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed, by Ray Bradbury, where it appears as: "The man felt his hair flutter and the tissues of his body draw tight as if he were standing at the center of a vacuum." So you are correct and the answer key is clearly wrong. – Peter Shor. Aug 20, 2020 at 13:29.
I agree. Hoover covers all vacuum cleaners, Dysons are cyclone based bagless ones. Also some obstacles to the genericisation of 'dyson' are, at least in my opinion, a historic perception that people who boast about having a Dyson are snooty arrivistes and a certain shared dislike of the public persona of James Dyson (a billionaire Brexit supporter who has extolled the UK’s potential after ...