Definizione monolingua

valve

valve (third-person singular simple present valves, present participle valving, simple past and past participle valved)

1. (transitive) To control (flow) by means of a valve.

valve (plural valves)

1. A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
2. A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
3. (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.
4. (UK) A vacuum tube.
5. (botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
6. (botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
7. (biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
8. (biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.

Definizione dizionario valve

	valvola
	device that controls flow of gas or fluid
	Device that controls the flow of a liquid through a passage or a pipe.

battente

opercolo

otturatore

ribalta

valva

Altri significati:

device in an internal combustion engine

(transitive) To control (flow) by means of a valve.

in anatomy

(biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.

(botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.

(anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.

(botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.

valve (in internal organs)

(UK) A vacuum tube.

(biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.

Biological small structure letting a fluid pass through in one direction but blocking or slowing its flow down in the opposite direction.

A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.

A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.