Pumping

Pumping can refer to:

  • The operation of a pump, for moving a liquid from one location to another
    • The use of a breast pump or milking machine for extraction of milk
  • 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

Famous quotes containing the word pumping:

    “It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.”
    —Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)