in vacuo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.57 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "The distillation is performed in vacuo to avoid decomposition of the compounds under study."
- "Their own mental capacity to examine what they saw was sufficient. Nothing was obscene in vacuo."
- "But we don't understand sentences like this in vacuo. We understand them relative to certain larger categories of experience […]"
Etymology
From Latin in vacuō (“in vacuum”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: in vacuō