English

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Etymology

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pump +‎ -less

Adjective

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pumpless (not comparable)

  1. Without a pump.
    • 1963 September, “A decade of French electrification progress”, in Modern Railways, page 193:
      Between Paris and Lyons the substation rectifiers were multi-anode units with vacuum pumps, either water- or air-cooled (the pumpless type having come later into general use on the Continent than in Britain and being first used for main-line traction in France in 1953).

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