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pumping

Pump \Pump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pumped (p[u^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. pumping.]

  1. To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.

  2. To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.

  3. Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.

    But pump not me for politics.
    --Otway.

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pumping

n. The act by which something is pumped. vb. (present participle of pump English)

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Pumping

Pumping can refer to:

  • The operation of a pump, for moving a liquid from one location to another
  • Gastric lavage The process of cleaning the contents of the stomach
  • Pumping (oil well), injecting chemicals into a wellbore
  • Pumping (computer systems), the number of times data is transmitted per clock cycle
  • Pump (skateboarding), a process by which longboard skateboarders accelerate without pushing off of the ground
  • Pumping lemma in the theory of formal languages
  • An artifact of audio dynamic range compression
  • Optical pumping, a process in which light is used to raise electrons from a lower energy level in an atom or molecule to a higher one
  • Weight training ("pumping iron"): building muscle by exercising with weights
  • Pumping (audio), a creative misuse of dynamic range compression
  • Sexual intercourse
  • " Pumping (My Heart)", a song by Patti Smith Group
Pumping (computer systems)

Pumping, when referring to computer systems, is simply how many times per clock cycle data is being transmitted.

Early types of system memory ( RAM), such as SDRAM, transmitted data on only the rising edge of the clock. With the advent of double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM or DDR SDRAM, the data was transmitted on both rising and falling edges. However, quad-pumping has been used for a while for the front side bus (FSB) of a computer system. This works by transmitting data at the rising edge, peak, falling edge, and trough of each clock cycle. Intel computer systems (and others) use this technology to reach effective FSB speeds of 1600 MT/s (million transfers per second), even though the FSB clock speed is only 400 MHz (cycles per second). A phase-locked loop in the CPU then multiplies the FSB clock by a factor in order to get the CPU speed.

Example: A Core 2 Duo E6600 processor is listed as 2.4 GHz with a 1066 MHz FSB. The FSB is known to be quad-pumped, so its clock frequency is 1066/4 = 266 MHz. Therefore, the CPU multiplier is 2400/266, or 9×. The DDR2 RAM that it is compatible with is known to be double-pumped and to have an Input/Output Bus twice that of the true FSB frequency (effectively transferring data 4 times a clock cycle), so to run the system synchronously (see Front side bus) the type of RAM that is appropriate is quadruple 266 MHz, or DDR2-1066 (PC2-8400 or PC2-8500, depending on the manufacturer's labeling.).

Pumping (oil well)

In the context of oil wells, pumping is a routine operation involving injecting fluids into the well. Pumping may either be done by rigging up to the kill wing valve on the Xmas tree or, if an intervention rig up is present pumping into the riser through a T-piece (a small section of riser with a connection on the side). Pumping is most routinely done to protect the well against scale and hydrates through the pumping of scale inhibitors and methanol. Pumping of kill weight brine may be done for the purposes of well kills and more exotic chemicals may be pumped from surface for cleaning the lower completion or stimulating the reservoir (though these types are jobs are more frequently done with coiled tubing for extra precision).

Pumping (My Heart)

"Pumping (My Heart)" is a rock song written by Patti Smith, Ivan Kral and Jay Dee Daugherty, and released as a second single from Patti Smith Group 1976 album Radio Ethiopia. In 1989 the song was covered by Dramarama on their album Box Office Bomb.

Pumping (audio)

In audio, recording, and music, pumping or gain pumping is a creative misuse of compression, the "audible unnatural level changes associated primarily with the release of a compressor". There is no 'correct' way to produce pumping, and according to Alex Case, the effect may result from selecting "too slow or too fast...or too, um, medium" attack and release settings.

The technique is common in rock and electronic dance music. A celebrated example is Phil Selway's ( Radiohead) drum track on " Exit Music (For A Film)", and clear examples include the electro percussion loop in Radiohead's " Idioteque", Benny Benassi's " Finger Food", and the ride cymbals on Portishead's " Pedestal".

Side-chain pumping is a more advanced technique using a compressors 'side-chain' feature which, "uses the amplitude envelope (dynamics profile) of one track as a trigger for a compressor used in another track." When the amplitude of a note of the side-chained instrument surpasses the threshold setting of the compressor it attenuates the compressed instrument, producing volume swells offset from the side-chained note by a selected release time. Found in house, techno, IDM, hip hop, dubstep, and drum 'n' bass, Eric Prydz's " Call On Me" is credited with popularizing the technique, though Daft Punk's " One More Time" contributed, while clear examples include Madonna's " Get Together" and Benny Benassi's " My Body (feat. Mia J.)"

Usage examples of "pumping".

The screw aft of the rudder, a moment before pumping water forward, slowed, stopped and began rotating in the opposite direction, now pumping water aft, thrusting the ship forward.

It was sheer blind reflex, speech centres in the brain spewing an analogue of what she was pumping out at transmission levels, like a man gesturing furiously on an audio- phone link.

So Bonaire became a pumping station in the cocaine pipeline into the United States, and there was so much money, people would kill to protect it.

Dean clearly saw an armless man stumbling and screaming in the street, the severed brachial arteries pumping his blood away in bright spurts.

The servant who was supposed to be making the fan swing with a treadle noticed Cashel move and began pumping his legs enthusiastically.

The sheer marble walls, pale as old bone and glistening dewily, seem to be pulsating with the strange pumping music, as do the softly clashing gold-framed Pennacchis, arched above them like the plated back of a prehistoric beast.

Could feel in the tips of my fingers exactly what needed to be done, could see in the back of my eyes the heart, smaller than my fist, the slippery, pumping, rubbery muscle and the blood washing through the ductus arteriosus, a small vessel, no bigger than an eighth of an inch in circumference.

Iraqi-Syrian pipeline, which had been closed since 1982, and began pumping as much as 200,000 barrels of oil per day in flagrant violation of the U.

The leak gained on them as the oakum of the first successful fothering worked through the leak, and the passing of a new sail was a slow, exhausting business that had little evident result: the Leopard drove eastward and a little south under small sail in a rising wind, pumping day and night.

He found out a few minutes later that Gaye had gone rearward and managed to lock herself in the hydro-dynamic pumping station with Ruff and Widget, the giant hamsters, and was refusing to let any gnome near them.

Not for feedingit had no digestive system, fueling itself by pumping sulfiderich water through internal lamellae dense with symbiotic carbon-fixing symbiotic bacteriabut for attack.

Nor was it true that Tish took Aggie along as a mechanician and brutally pushed her off the car because she was not pumping enough oil.

The medial umbilical ligament was a mess, and they had almost lost him because his superior mesenteric artery was pierced and pumping blood into his abdominal cavity, causing a life-threatening drop in blood pressure.

Trey kissed him, moaning into his lips, hips pumping into him, slamming them together.

The petechial hemorrhages on the insides of the eyelids as well as other places, coupled with the lack of substantial bleeding from the head wound, suggest that the strangulation was first, so that by the time of the head injury her heart was no longer pumping or was pumping only weakly.