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Pitot tube Definition

Pi·tot tube (--pē′tō, pē tō′)

noun

  1. a small, -shaped tube which, when inserted vertically into a flowing fluid with its open end facing upstream, measures the total pressure of the fluid and hence, indirectly, the velocity of its flow
  2. Pitot-static tube

Etymology: after Henri Pitot (1695-1771), Fr physicist

Browse dictionary entries near Pitot tube

  1. ‹ Pitot-static tube
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  5. ‹ pitiful
  6. ‹ pitier
  7. ‹ pitiable
  8. ‹ pithy
  9. ‹ Pithecanthropus erectus
  10. ‹ pithecanthropine
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