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side valve

side valve noun: a type of valve in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder block beside the piston. The cylinder head is then a simple dome extending across the valves and piston.

side valve: a type of valve in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain...
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Noun

side valve (plural side valves)

  1. A type of valve in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder block beside the piston. The cylinder head is then a simple dome extending across the valves and piston.
    • Near-synonym: L-head (most side valves are L-heads; precisely hyponymous)
    • This engine has side valves.
    Synonyms:
    flathead, L-head

side valve meaning in Tamil

side valve in Tamil

பக்கவாயில்

Examples of side valve in a sentence

  • This engine is a side valve model.
  • This engine is a side valve.

Synonyms of side valve

Forms of side valve

pluralside valves

Questions about side valve

What does side valve mean?
Side valve means a type of valve in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder block beside the piston. The cylinder head is then a simple dome extending across the valves and piston.
What is side valve in Tamil?
Side valve in Tamil is பக்கவாயில். See Side valve meaning in Tamil.
How do you use side valve in a sentence?
This engine is a side valve model.
What part of speech is side valve?
Side valve is a noun.
What is the plural of side valve?
The plural of side valve is side valves.

Words near side valve in the dictionary

  1. side tool
  2. side tools
  3. side track
  4. side tracks
  5. side triceps
  6. side valve
  7. side valves
  8. side wall
  9. side walls
  10. side wheeler
  11. side wheelers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: side valve (page history and authors); side 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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