Pump (disambiguation)

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On Wikipedia, 'pump' may refer to the village pump.

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

Pump may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

  • Pump, two different Caribbean drums, one each used in the music of Barbados and St Maarten
  • "Pump Up the Jam", track by Belgian act Technotronic (1989)
  • Pump (album), Aerosmith album (1989)
  • Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter
  • "The Pump", song by Quiet Riot from the QR III album
  • "Pump It Up!", track by Belgian musician Danzel (2004)

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • Pump (film), documentary film on petroleum-based fuel consumption (2014)
  • Pump It Up, video game series

Footwear

  • Ballet pump or ballet flat, flat-soled ballet shoe
  • Court shoe, or pump, 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, athletic shoe style
  • Reebok Pump, athletic shoe line

Science and technology

  • Pump (constellation) or Antlia
  • Breast pump, mechanical device that lactating women use to extract milk from their breasts
  • 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
  • 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
  • Muscle pump, term used in fitness describing a phenomenon after intense resistance training

Other uses

  • Pump (skateboarding), 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

See also

  • Pumping (disambiguation)
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