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venturi
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun venturi has 2 senses
- venturi(n = noun.person) robert charles venturi, robert venturi - United States architect (born in 1925); Array is a kind of architect, designer
- venturi(n = noun.artifact) Array - a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor); Array is a part of carburetor, carburettor
is a kind of tube, tubing
OXFORD DICTIONARY
venturi, n. (pl. venturis) a short piece of narrow tube between wider sections for measuring flow-rate or exerting suction.
Etymology
G. B. Venturi, It. physicist d. 1822
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