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Pitot tube definition

Pi·tot tube (pē′tō, pē tō′)

  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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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