vacuum pump

IPA: vˈækjumpˈʌmp

A piece of equipment used for extraction of gas or vapour from an enclosed space, leaving the container with a partial vacuum.

Examples of "vacuum-pump" in Sentences

Resealing the bottle with a vacuum-pump cork can help.
Last week, vacuum-pump maker Edwards Group said it wouldn't proceed with its IPO because of market uncertainty.
The remote-controlled Spider-Man toy, which incorporates vacuum-pump technology, actually crawls ups and down walls.
On Wednesday, Alcatel said it will sell its vacuum-pump business to German firm Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG for € 200 million.
The balance had to be drawn off with a little vacuum-pump; and Thyrsis would watch the tiny jets as they sprayed upon the glass bulb.
The one I think will be cool is the Remote Control Wallcrawler Spider-Man that uses vacuum-pump technology to let the wall crawler climb the walls.
On this same floor is the vacuum-pump room with a glass-blowers 'room adjoining, both of them historic by reason of the strenuous work done on incandescent lamps and X-ray tubes within their walls.
This fall, Spider-Man will scale bedroom and family room walls everywhere with the REMOTE CONTROL WALLCRAWLER, a remote controlled toy Spider-Man with amazing motorized vacuum-pump technology that allows Spidey to literally crawl up and down walls!
On the Thursday after Caspar Harvey's lunch I mentioned the sick filly to my grandmother and found her one step ahead of the facts; no real surprise, she read newspapers at vacuum-pump speed and from her own long experience at writing them, understood all the inferences they left out.