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dry valve

dry valve is the ellipsis 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 valve

pluraldry valves

Questions about dry valve

What is dry valve the ellipsis of?
Dry valve is the ellipsis of dry pipe valve.

Words near dry valve in the dictionary

  1. dry transfers
  2. dry up
  3. dry up and blow away
  4. dry valley
  5. dry valleys
  6. dry valve
  7. dry valves
  8. dry vomit
  9. dry vomited
  10. dry vomiting
  11. dry vomits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dry 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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