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Kingston valve

Kingston valve noun: a valve fitted in the bottom of a ship's fuel, water or ballast tank that allows seawater to enter for the purposes of cleaning and to admit water ballast.

Noun

Kingston valve (plural Kingston valves)

  1. A valve fitted in the bottom of a ship's fuel, water or ballast tank that allows seawater to enter for the purposes of cleaning and to admit water ballast.

Kingston valve meaning in Tamil

Kingston valve in Tamil

கிங்கஸ்டன் மூடிதழ்

Forms of Kingston valve

pluralKingston valves

Origin of Kingston valve

After its inventor John Kingston (1786-1847), an English engineer.

Questions about Kingston valve

What does Kingston valve mean?
Kingston valve means a valve fitted in the bottom of a ship's fuel, water or ballast tank that allows seawater to enter for the purposes of cleaning and to admit water ballast.
What is Kingston valve in Tamil?
Kingston valve in Tamil is கிங்கஸ்டன் மூடிதழ். See Kingston valve meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Kingston valve?
Kingston valve is a noun.
What is the plural of Kingston valve?
The plural of Kingston valve is Kingston valves.

Words near Kingston valve in the dictionary

  1. Kingston Park
  2. Kingston Seymour
  3. Kingston St Mary
  4. Kingston upon Hull
  5. Kingston upon Thames
  6. Kingston valve
  7. Kingston valves
  8. Kingston's metal
  9. Kingston-upon-Thames
  10. Kingstone
  11. Kingstones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kingston valve (page history and authors); kingston valve (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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