exsuction

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/ɪkˈsʌkʃən/

noun

The act of sucking out.

OriginLatin ex(s)ugō, ex(s)uctum →
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Meanings

nounexsuction (plural exsuctions)

plural exsuctions

  1. archaicThe act of sucking out.

    VVe thought it not amiſs to try if a Pendulum vvould ſvving faſter, or continue ſvvinging longer in our Receiver, in caſe of the exſuction of the Air, then othervviſe.

    1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 26]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, page 202

Origin

  1. Latinex(s)ugō, ex(s)uctum“to suck out”
  2. Englishexsuction

From Latin ex(s)ugō, ex(s)uctum (“to suck out”), from ex (“out”) + sugō (“to suck”). Equivalent to ex- + suction.

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Chicago

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