in vacuo

1. 1.

   in isolation and without reference to anything else
2. 2.

   in a vacuum

Questions about in vacuo

What does in vacuo mean?

in vacuo means "in isolation and without reference to anything else". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is in vacuo a common word?

in vacuo is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.