intervacuum
English
editEtymology
editFormed as inter- + vacuum, but compare the Latin intervacō (“I am empty between”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭntəvăʹkyo͞oəm,, IPA(key): /ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/
Noun
editintervacuum (plural intervacua)
- An intervening empty space; a vacant interval.
- 1827 April, Samuel Taylor Coleridge [aut.], and Kathleen Coburn and Anthony John Harding [eds.], The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume V: “1827–1834”, part 1: ‘Text’, (2002, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, entry 5504: ff11ᵛ–12
- In the distribution of the Animals themselves, the Subjects and the products of this energy, into the principal Classes, we do not suppose chasms & intervacua or empty Interspaces between the Classes, but ascend from a lower to a higher by an interliminary — and the same principle holds good in the Dynamics of Organic Nature, and the Enumeration and the Order of the three Constitutive Forms of the Vital Energy.
- 1827 April, Samuel Taylor Coleridge [aut.], and Kathleen Coburn and Anthony John Harding [eds.], The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume V: “1827–1834”, part 1: ‘Text’, (2002, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, entry 5504: ff11ᵛ–12
Adjective
editintervacuum (not comparable)
- (physics) Between regions of vacuum (or of very low pressure)
- 1990, Gerardo Beni, Vacuum mechatronics:
- UHV technique for intervacuum sample transfer...
- 2003, Gerardo Giruzzi, EC-12: proceedings of the 12th Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission...:
- The intervacuum space was monitored continuously, a change in pressure implied to a rupture of the isolation between this volume and either the torus or waveguide vacuums.
References
edit- “† Interva·cuum” listed on page 423 of volume V (H–K), § ii (I) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1901]
† Interva·cuum. Obs. rare. [Inter- 2 b. Cf. L. intervacāre to be empty between.] An intervening empty space; a vacant interval. [¶] 1627 E. F. Hist. Edw. II (1680) 24 The intervacuum of their absence. - “†interˈvacuum” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]