Suction Definition

sŭkshən
suctioned, suctioning, suctions
noun
suctions
The act or process of sucking.
Webster's New World
The production of a vacuum or partial vacuum in a cavity or over a surface so that the external atmospheric pressure forces the surrounding fluid, particulate solid, etc. into the cavity or causes something to adhere to the surface.
Webster's New World
The suction force created in this way.
Webster's New World
The process of creating an imbalance in pressure to draw matter from one place to another.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • suck
  • sucking
  • effect of atmospheric pressures
  • the force of a vacuum
verb
To draw away or remove by the force of suction.
Suction fluid from the lungs.
American Heritage
To clean or evacuate (a body cavity, for example) by the force of suction.
American Heritage
To draw away or remove by the force of suction.
Suction fluid from the lungs.
American Heritage Medicine
To clean or evacuate a body cavity by the force of suction.
American Heritage Medicine
To create an imbalance in pressure between one space and another in order to draw matter between the spaces.
Wiktionary
adjective
Causing suction.
Webster's New World
Operating by suction.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to something that operates by the principle of creating an imbalance in pressure to draw matter from one place to another.
Wiktionary

Origin of Suction

  • Late Latin sūctiō sūctiōn- from Latin sūctus past participle of sūgere to suck seuə-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin sugere (to suck)

    From Wiktionary

Suction Sentence Examples

  • In most insects that feed by suction the mandibles are modified.

  • The 'disposition of these valves divides this type of pump into suction pumps and force pumps.

  • Thus if the instrument depends on the pressure or suction effect alone, and this pressure or suction is measured against the air pressure in an ordinary room, in which the doors and windows are carefully closed and a newspaper is then burnt up the chimney, an effect may be produced equal to a wind of io m.

  • Fleuss consists of a vacuum pump capable of reducing the air pressure to a fraction of a millimetre, the suction pipe of which is connected first with a vessel containing sulphuric acid, and second with the vessel containing the water to be frozen.

  • Larva campodeiform, usually feeding by suction (exceptionally hypermetamorphic with subsequent eruciform instars).

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Words Starting With

SSUSUC

Words Ending With

NONION

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