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Pump (disambiguation)

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A pump is a mechanical device used to move fluids or slurries.

Pump may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • Pump (film), documentary film on petroleum-based fuel consumption (2014)

Footwear

Science and technology

  • Pump (constellation) or Antlia
  • Pump action, a type of manual firearm action
  • Breast pump, mechanical device that lactating women use to extract milk from their breasts
  • Charge pump, a circuit design
  • Heat pump, device that transfers heat energy from a source of heat to a heat sink
  • Ion pump (biology), or ion transporter, transmembrane protein that moves ions across a biological membrane against their concentration gradient through active transport
  • Ion pump (physics), or sputter ion pump, type of vacuum pump which operates by sputtering a metal getter
  • Laser pumping, the act of energy transfer from an external source into the gain medium of a laser
  • Muscle pump, term used in fitness describing a phenomenon after intense resistance training
  • Skeletal-muscle pump, collection of skeletal muscles that aid the heart in the circulation of blood
  • Vacuum pump, device that removes gas molecules from a sealed volume in order to leave behind a partial vacuum

Other uses

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