Apr 28, 2018 · According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, vacuum entered English in the 1540s directly from Latin as the substantivized, neuter form of the adjective vacuus. The earliest use was as …

Aug 21, 2017 · +1 It seems that vacuum is the odd word out when placed in a lineup with (for example) continuum, individuum, menstruum, and residuum. I don't know why the -uum in vacuum came to be …

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 …

Mar 2, 2025 · (In a vacuum, “Am I not?” could only be construed as some sort of philosophical counter-Descartian pondering.) In light of this dependence, the comma is more apt then the semicolon.

Jun 15, 2011 · Clearly they are related through Latin, from e- and vacare (out of and to empty) and from vacuus (empty), and in Latin the shared morpheme is vac-. More interesting may be the relationships …

Oct 24, 2011 · A perfect vacuum would be one with no particles in it at all, which is impossible to achieve in practice. Physicists often discuss ideal test results that would occur in a perfect vacuum, which …

My German colleagues were laughing at the way I pronounce google, and it led to a discussion. With words like google, yahoo, poodle and loose, the oo has a sound similar to the German ü sound. With...

Oct 8, 2017 · If a 'vacuum cleaner cleaner' is a machine for cleaning vacuum cleaners, then the person who cleans the vacuum cleaner cleaner would be a 'vacuum cleaner cleaner cleaner'.

Feb 11, 2018 · Considering their primary meanings, vacuum is used more often in a scientific context, in which case it means space completely or partially absent of any matter/air. It is a scientific term, …

Jun 26, 2011 · The vacuum tube was soon replaced by semi-conductor materials. The technology was named solid state electronics because, semi-conductor materials, like vacuum, are actually …