valve

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin valva

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvælv/

Noun

valve (plural valves)

1. A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
2. A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
3. (anatomy) 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 retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.
4. (UK) A vacuum tube.
5. (botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
6. (botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
7. (biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
8. (biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.

Derived terms

• exhaust valve
• heart valve
• vein valve
• ileocecal valve
• intake valve
• toggle valve
• valved
• valveless
• valve oil
• valvoplasty

Translations

device that controls flow of gas or fluid

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Basque: balbula (eu) Catalan: vàlvula (ca) f. Czech: ventil (cs) m. Esperanto: valvo (eo) Estonian: ventiil (et), klapp (et) Finnish: venttiili (fi) French: clapet (fr) m., soupape (fr) f. Galician: please add this translation if you can German: Ventil (de) n. Ido: valvo (io) Indonesian: please add this translation if you can

Italian: valvola (it) f. Latvian: ventilis m., krāns m. Luhya: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: ventil (no) m. Polish: zawór (pl) m. Portuguese: válvula (pt) f. Romanian: ventil (ro) n. Russian: вентиль (ru) m., клапан (ru) m., задвижка (ru) m. Spanish: válvula (es) f., llave (es) m. Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can

device in an internal combustion engine

Catalan: vàlvula (ca) f. Croatian: ventil (hr) m. Estonian: klapp (et) Finnish: venttiili (fi) German: Ventil (de) n.

Latvian: vārsts m. Norwegian: ventil (no) m. Polish: zawór (pl) m. Russian: клапан (ru) m.

in anatomy

Catalan: vàlvula (ca) f. Czech: chlopeň (cs) f. Esperanto: valvo (eo) Finnish: läppä (fi) German: Klappe (de) f.

Norwegian: klaff (no) m. Polish: zastawka (pl) f. Romanian: valvă (ro) f. Russian: клапан (ru) m.

vacuum tube — see vacuum tube

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Scottish Gaelic: cìochag, deocan, duille-dorais, pìob-chòmhla

Verb

valve (third-person singular simple present valves, present participle valving, simple past and past participle valved)

1. (transitive) To control (flow) by means of a valve.

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Finnish

Noun

valve

1. The state of being awake.

Declension

Declension of valve (type hame) singular plural nominative valve valveet genitive valveen valveiden valveitten partitive valvetta valveita accusative valve valveen valveet inessive valveessa valveissa elative valveesta valveista illative valveeseen valveisiin valveihin adessive valveella valveilla ablative valveelta valveilta allative valveelle valveille essive valveena valveina translative valveeksi valveiksi instructive – valvein abessive valveetta valveitta comitative – valveineen

Antonyms

• uni

Derived terms

• olla valveilla

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French

Etymology

From Latin valva.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /valv/

Noun

valve f. (plural valves)

1. valve

Derived terms

• valve cardiaque

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Italian

Noun

valve f.

1. Plural form of valva.