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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

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