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pressure valves

pressure valves is the plural of pressure valve.

Meaning of pressure valve

Noun

pressure valve (plural pressure valves)

  1. A valve designed to open when subjected to a given amount of pressure. Also used figuratively.
    • WikiLeaks might have provided a pressure valve for those agents who were terribly worried about what might happen and frustrated by their superiors' seeming indifference.2010 October 15, Los Angeles Times

Questions about pressure valves

What is pressure valves the plural of?
Pressure valves is the plural of pressure valve.

Words near pressure valves in the dictionary

  1. pressure switch
  2. pressure switches
  3. pressure ulcer
  4. pressure ulcers
  5. pressure valve
  6. pressure valves
  7. pressure vessel
  8. pressure vessels
  9. pressure volume diagram
  10. pressure volume diagrams
  11. pressure wash

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