venturi (tube)

venturi (tube)
venturi (tube) or venturi [ven toor′ē]
n.
after G. B. Venturi (1746-1822), It physicist
a short tube with a constricted, throatlike passage that increases the velocity and lowers the pressure of a fluid conveyed through it: used to measure the flow of a fluid, to operate instruments, as in aircraft, to regulate the mixture in a carburetor, etc.

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