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dry-pipe valve

dry-pipe valve is the alternative form of dry pipe valve.

Meaning of dry pipe valve

Noun

dry pipe valve (plural dry pipe valves)

  1. A specialized mechanical valve used in commercial or industrial fire sprinkler systems; it holds back a water supply while keeping the building's overhead pipes filled with pressurized air or nitrogen.

Forms of dry-pipe valve

pluraldry-pipe valves

Questions about dry-pipe valve

What is dry-pipe valve the alternative form of?
Dry-pipe valve is the alternative form of dry pipe valve.

Words near dry-pipe valve in the dictionary

  1. dry-labbing
  2. dry-labs
  3. dry-laid
  4. dry-nurse
  5. dry-nurses
  6. dry-pipe valve
  7. dry-rot
  8. dry-run
  9. dry-runs
  10. dry-salt
  11. dry-salted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dry-pipe valve (page history and authors); dry pipe valve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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