English
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Etymology
From w:Giovanni Battista Venturi|Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.
Pronunciation
IPA|/v�n'tj��ri/
Noun
en-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 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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