in vacuo
English
Etymology
From Latin in vacuō (“in vacuum”).
Adverb
in vacuo
- In a partial or full vacuum.
- The distillation is performed in vacuo to avoid decomposition of the compounds under study.
- (figuratively) Out of context.
- 1980, George Lakoff; Mark Johnson, chapter 24, in Metaphors We Live By:
- But we don't understand sentences like this in vacuo. We understand them relative to certain larger categories of experience […]
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Further reading
- “in vacuo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.