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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

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Music

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  • 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

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Footwear

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Science and technology

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  • 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
  • Pump Action, a way a gun can be used.
  • 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

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See also

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