Pump (disambiguation)
A pump is a mechanical device used to move fluids or slurries.
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Pump may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
- Pump (album), a 1989 Aerosmith album
- Pump (band) was an experimental, pre-electronica, band, active between 1979-1993.
- Pump, a hard rock and heavy metal band from Germany, active since 2002.
- Pump, two different Caribbean drums, one each used in the music of Barbados and St Maarten
- Lil Pump, an American rapper and songwriter
- "The Pump", a song by Quiet Riot from QR III
Other uses in arts, entertainment and media
- Pump (film), a 2014 film
- Pump It Up or Pump, a series of music video games
Footwear
- Ballet pump or ballet flat, a flat-soled ballet shoe
- Court shoe, or pump, a heeled slip-on shoe with a low-cut front
- Ghillies (dance), or pumps, soft, laced shoes worn by Scottish and Irish dancers
- Plimsoll shoe or pump, a style of athletic shoe
- Reebok Pump, a line of athletic shoes
Science and technology
- Pump (constellation) or Antlia
- Breast pump, a mechanical device that lactating women use to extract milk from their breasts
- Heat pump, a device that transfers heat energy from a source of heat to a heat sink
- Ion pump (biology), or ion transporter, a transmembrane protein that moves ions across a biological membrane against their concentration gradient through active transport
- Ion pump (physics), or sputter ion pump, a 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
- Skeletal-muscle pump, a collection of skeletal muscles that aid the heart in the circulation of blood
- Vacuum pump, a device that removes gas molecules from a sealed volume in order to leave behind a partial vacuum
Other uses
- Pump (skateboarding), a technique in skateboarding
- Pump (water), brand of bottled spring water available in Australia and New Zealand
- Project Waterpump (alternatively Operation Waterpump, or simply Waterpump), a classified military operation of the Laotian Civil War
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See also
- Pumping (disambiguation)
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