devacuate
To (cause to) cease to be a vacuum.
Verb
- To (cause to) cease to be a vacuum.
- Upon breakage the envelope is permitted to devacuate contrallably without deleterious fragmentation of its side walls. - 1960, Glass Technology:
- First acquire a defunct oscilloscope C.R.T. of the flat face variety and devacuate it. The method I used to devacuate is as follows : First wrap the C.R.T. in a blanket, with only the extreme socket end exposed. Next,...
- With these implosion systems, breakage of the faceplate causes the tube to devacuate quietly and safely without a violent implosion. - 1992, K. Blair Benson, Television Engineering Handbook: Featuring HDTV Systems,...
Origin
From de- + vacuate.