Usually means: Space devoid of matter, particles.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word vacuum:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. vacuum: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vacuum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vacuum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vacuum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vacuum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vacuum, vacuum: Wordnik
  7. vacuum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vacuum: Wiktionary
  9. vacuum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vacuum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vacuum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vacuum: Dictionary.com
  13. vacuum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vacuum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Vacuum, Vacuum (band), Vacuum (disambiguation), Vacuum (outer space), Vacuum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vacuum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vacuum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vacuum: Rhymezone
  19. vacuum, vacuum (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vacuum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vacuum: Free Dictionary
  22. vacuum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vacuum: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. vacuum: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. vacuum: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vacuum: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vacuum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. vacuum: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. VACUUM: Acronym Finder
  3. vacuum: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vacuum: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Vacuum: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  4. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)
  5. VACUUM: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vacuum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Vacuum: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. vacuum: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  4. VACUUM: Power Engineering

(Note: See vacua as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A region of space that contains no matter.
noun:  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.
noun:  (physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
noun:  An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
noun:  An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
verb:  (transitive) To clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a vacuum cleaner.
verb:  (transitive, databases) To optimise a database or database table by physically removing deleted tuples.
noun:  (colloquial, only pluralized as "vacuums") Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner. [A domestic or industrial mobile machine for cleaning floors and similar surfaces that draws dust and other particles into a container (a cyclonic type bin, or a filter bag) by the suction created by an electric motor driving a fan.]

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