Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

intervacuum

/ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-ter-vac-u-um
IPA: /ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An intervening empty space; a vacant interval.

adj

Between regions of vacuum (or of very low pressure)

Example Sentences

"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."
"UHV technique for intervacuum sample transfer..."
"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."

Etymology

Formed as inter- + vacuum, but compare the Latin intervacō (“to be empty between”).

Word Breakdown

Prefix: inter

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/

Inflected Forms

intervacua (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce intervacuum?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/.
What does intervacuum mean?: An intervening empty space; a vacant interval.
Where does intervacuum come from?: Formed as inter- + vacuum, but compare the Latin intervacō (“to be empty between”).

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