/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · In Vacuo (Latin)
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In a vacuum—i.e. in a space from which, nominally altogether, and really almost, all the air has been taken away.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.