vacuum pump

English

Etymology

vacuum +‎ pump

Noun

vacuum pump (plural vacuum pumps)

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

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