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Etymology
From w:Giovanni Battista Venturi|Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.

Pronunciation
IPA|/vɛn'tjʊəri/

Noun
en-noun|venturi

1. a tube with a constriction, used either to control fluid flow, or to measure the velocity of a fluid (or of something travelling through a fluid)

#:*1973: 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 — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Synonyms
venturi tube

See also
venturi effect

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• 2006-11-17 07:46 - RobotGMwikt - robot Adding: [[ru:venturi]]

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