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

Contents

• Arts, entertainment, and media
• Music
• Other uses in arts, entertainment and media
• Footwear
• Science and technology
• Other uses
• See also

Pump may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

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
• Pump action, a type of manual firearm action
• Breast pump, mechanical device that lactating women use to extract milk from their breasts
• Charge pump, a circuit design
• 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
• Muscle pump, term used in fitness describing a phenomenon after intense resistance training
• 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

Other uses

• Pump (skateboarding), technique in skateboarding
• Pump (bottled water), brand of bottled spring water available in Australia and New Zealand

See also

• Pumping (disambiguation)

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