in vacuo

adv

Etymology: From Latin in vacuō (“in vacuum”).

1. In a partial or full vacuum.

   “The distillation is performed in vacuo to avoid decomposition of the compounds under study.”

2. Out of context.

   “Their own mental capacity to examine what they saw was sufficient. Nothing was obscene in vacuo.”

   “But we don't understand sentences like this in vacuo. We understand them relative to certain larger categories of experience […]”