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venturi

/vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/

venturi noun: a venturi tube.

Noun

venturi (plural venturis or venturi)

  1. A venturi tube.
  2. The throat of a carburetor, which is shaped so as to produce depressurization and swirling of the incoming air, allowing drops of fuel to be atomized (aerosolized).
    Synonyms:
    v, bbl, barrel
  3. (rare) A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
    • He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake...1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Proper noun capitalized: Venturi

Venturi

  1. A surname from Italian.

venturi meaning in Tamil and Bengali

venturi in Tamil

குறுவழி

venturi in Bengali

একটি ভেঞ্চুরি নল, একটি কার্বুরেটরের কণ্ঠনালি

Synonyms of venturi

Forms of venturi

pluralventuris
pluralventuri

Plural of venturi: venturis or venturi

Origin of venturi

After Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746-1822), an Italian physicist who studied air flow and water flow.

Plural or patronymic of Ventura.

Words formed from venturi

Phrases with venturi

Questions about venturi

What does venturi mean?
Venturi means a venturi tube.
What is venturi in Tamil?
Venturi in Tamil is குறுவழி. See Venturi meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is venturi?
Venturi can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce venturi?
Venturi is pronounced /vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/.
What is the plural of venturi?
The plural of venturi is venturis.

Words near venturi in the dictionary

  1. venturesomely
  2. venturesomeness
  3. venturest
  4. ventureth
  5. Ventureño
  6. venturi
  7. venturi effect
  8. venturi effects
  9. venturi injector
  10. venturi injectors
  11. venturi scrubber

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Adapted from Wiktionary: venturi (page history and authors); Venturi (page history and authors); venturi (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); venturi (Bengali 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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