Pitottube

Pitottube
Pi·tot tube (pēʹtō, pē-tōʹ) n.
A device, essentially a tube set parallel to the direction of fluid-stream movement and attached to a manometer, used to measure the total pressure of the fluid stream.
  [After HenriPitot (1695-1771), French physicist.]

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