Pump (disambiguation)

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

Pump may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

  • Pump (album), a 1989 Aerosmith album
  • 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

Footwear

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
  • Muscle pump, a term used in fitness describing a phenomenon where after intense resistance training, skeletal muscles temporarily have more blood in them, making them appear bigger, and because of vasodilation have more visual veins. This typically lasts for a few minutes up to 24 hours.

Other uses

See also

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