venturi en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/
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Etymology
After Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746-1822), an Italian physicist who studied air flow and water flow.
Meanings
- A venturi tube.
- The throat of a carburetor, which is shaped so as to produce depressurization and swirling of the incoming air, allowing drops of fuel to be atomized (aerosolized).
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(rare) A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading.
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| venturi | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| venturis | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
venturi mask · venturi scrubber · venturi effect · venturi injector