English Explanatory Dictionary

-vac

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix

Used in the naming of computer systems and computer models, due to the use of vacuum tubes as the functional elements of computers of the time.
Used in the naming of vacuum cleaner models.

Word forms

-vac

Etymology

Clipping of vacuum.

Related words

EDVAC ORDVAC UNIVAC vac vacuum vacuum cleaner vacuum tube

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