| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ven·tu·ri |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  v n-t r  |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. ven·tu·ris
1. A short tube with a constricted throat used to determine fluid pressures and velocities by measurement of differential pressures generated at the throat as a fluid traverses the tube. 2. A constricted throat in the air passage of a carburetor, causing a reduction in pressure that results in fuel vapor being drawn out of the carburetor bowl. | | ETYMOLOGY: | After Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746–1822), Italian physicist.
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