Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.
A pump is a device that uses energy to transfer fluids through suction and pressure, but this definition is incomplete without understanding mechanism.
External reference — all senses of the word “pump” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.
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