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side valves

side valves is the plural of side valve.

Meaning of side valve

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)
    Synonyms:
    flathead, L-head

Questions about side valves

What is side valves the plural of?
Side valves is the plural of side valve.

Words near side valves in the dictionary

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

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