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If yes, does it have the same meaning of vacuum?

Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum
http://www.vaccum.org/

Both the sites define the same meaning, but the spelling differs.

Some dictionaries also have an entry for vaccum which links to vacuum.

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The first site you linked to doesn't mention the spelling vaccum at all though. And I don't believe you should take the second site too seriously, as it has links to vaccuum.org and ultravide.org (the last one being for the French word ultravide, which doesn't exist either). – Mr Lister Feb 14 at 10:21
Another odd variant spelling appears to be vacumn. Although that variant is very hard to find in dictionaries, it can be found on some websites, and in some scientific literature as well. – J.R. Feb 14 at 10:25
Sometimes there are just mistakes that unfortunately get repeated. – Mitch Feb 14 at 14:33
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Re: vaccum.org It is very common for website domain names to take the form of words which are often misspelled so that they can get advertising hits. – horatio Feb 14 at 19:40
The "Wellccome" on the vaccum.org site ought to give you a hint. – KitFox♦ Feb 15 at 13:17
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Urban Dictionary says "vaccum: A word presumably used by those who do not know that the correct spelling is "vacuum".

More seriously, NGram thinks vaccum doesn't exist at all.

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Clearly it does, because you and the second website you link to use it. If you’re asking if it’s the normal spelling for the word describing a space empty of matter, then it is not. The normal spelling is vacuum. The Corpus of Contemporary American English has 2 records for it, against 5810 for vacuum. The figures for the British National Corpus are 1 and 919.

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