Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In a vacuum.
  • adverb Without reference to related context; in isolation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In a vacuum; in empty space.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Physics) In a vacuum; in empty space.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a partial or full vacuum

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a vacuum
  • adverb in isolation and without reference to anything else

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin in vacuō : Latin in, in + Latin vacuō, ablative of vacuus, empty.]

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From Latin in + vacuum ("void, vacuum")

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