venturi

Variant of venturi (tube)

venturi (tube) definition

ven·turi (tube) (ven to̵or′ē)

noun

a short tube with a constricted, throatlike passage that increases the velocity and lowers the pressure of a fluid conveyed through it: used to measure the flow of a fluid, to operate instruments, as in aircraft, to regulate the mixture in a carburetor, etc.

Etymology: after G. B. Venturi (1746-1822), It physicist

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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