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