| Definitions | noun (venturi)
- 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 , enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Etymology: From w:Giovanni Battista Venturi, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.
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