valves
valves is the plural of valve.
valves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of valve.
Meaning of valve
Noun
valve (plural valves)
- A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
- open the valve
- Such a device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
- Near-synonym: poppet valve
- One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction.
- the ileocecal valve
- One of the leaves of a folding door or of a window sash.
- A vacuum tube.
- One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
Phrases with valves
- D valves
- dry valves
- ball valves
- blow valves
- foot valves
- gate valves
- head valves
- leaf valves
- plug valves
- pump valves
- scum valves
- side valves
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- stop valves
- tail valves
- vein valves
- acorn valves
- check valves
- choke valves
- clack valves
- colic valves
- heart valves
- inlet valves
- pilot valves
- screw valves
- slide valves
- aortic valves
- demand valves
- escape valves
- freeze valves
- French valves
- intake valves
- jockey valves
- mitral valves
- needle valves
- piston valves
- poppet valves
- puppet valves
- relief valves
- return valves
- safety valves
- spring valves
- toggle valves
- triple valves
- vacuum valves
- exhaust valves
- flapper valves
- Fleming valves
- pyloric valves
- snifter valves
- suction valves
- Tulpius valves
- Bauhin's valves
- bicuspid valves
- dry pipe valves
- Kingston valves
- overhead valves
- pressure valves
- pulmonic valves
- snifting valves
- throttle valves
- butterfly valves
- ileocecal valves
- pulmonary valves
- retaining valves
- reversing valves
- semilunar valves
- Thebesian valves
- tricuspid valves
- Eustachian valves
- ileocaecal valves
- non-return valves
- thermionic valves
- swing check valves
- valves of Kerckring
- valves of Thebesius
- Wade-Dahl-Till valves
- atrioventricular valves
- Ramsbottom safety valves
Questions about valves
- What is valves the plural of?
- Valves is the plural of valve.
Words near valves in the dictionary
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