Venturi Definition

vĕn-to͝orē
venturi
noun
A short tube with a constricted throat used to determine fluid pressures and velocities by measurement of differential pressures generated at the throat as a fluid traverses the tube.
American Heritage
A constricted throat in the air passage of a carburetor, causing a reduction in pressure that results in fuel vapor being drawn out of the carburetor bowl.
American Heritage

(rare, pathology) A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • Robert Charles Venturi
  • robert venturi

Origin of Venturi

  • After Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746–1822), Italian physicist

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • After Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.

    From Wiktionary

Venturi Sentence Examples

  • A full account, together with other early contributions to the science of light, is given in Venturi's Commentari sopra la storia de la Teoria del Ottica (Bologna, 1814).

  • This section of the Mass concludes with another brilliant fugue for the chorus, to the words 'Et vitam venturi saeculi, Amen ' .

  • A whirlpool is made by installing venturi jets into the side of a bath through which water is re-circulated using a powerful pump.

  • In the most widely used venturi scrubber, water is injected into the flue gas stream at the venturi throat to form droplets.

  • This price includes bath, 8 jet venturi whirlpool system with Chrome jets and Controls, front panel and Chrome shower screen.

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Words Starting With

VVEVEN

Words Ending With

IRIURI

Unscrambles

venturi

Words Starting With V and Ending With I

Starts With V & Ends With IStarts With VE & Ends With IStarts With V & Ends With RI

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With V7 Letter Words Ending With I