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piston valves

piston valves is the plural of piston valve.

Meaning of piston valve

Noun

piston valve (plural piston valves)

  1. A valve which uses a hollow or double piston sliding in a cylinder to direct fluid along one of two paths
    • We already know that a balanced slide valve requires about half as much power to move it as an unbalanced valve, but the piston valve requires only about half as much as the balanced valve.1898, “A Plea for the Piston Valve”, in Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association, volume 12

Questions about piston valves

What is piston valves the plural of?
Piston valves is the plural of piston valve.

Words near piston valves in the dictionary

  1. piston ring
  2. piston rings
  3. piston rod
  4. piston rods
  5. piston valve
  6. piston valves
  7. Pistone
  8. pistoned
  9. Pistones
  10. pistonhead
  11. pistonheads

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