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1. A device, with valves, for raising water by steam, partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; also called vacuum pump.
2. A pulsimeter.
Origin: Pulse.
(01 Mar 1998)
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