venturi

See also: Venturi

English

Etymology

After Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/

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Noun

venturi (plural venturis or venturi)

1. A venturi tube.
2. The throat of a carburetor.
3. (rare, pathology) A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     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, pleading.

Synonyms

• venturi tube

Related terms

• venturi effect
• venturi mask
• venturi scrubber
• venturi injector

Translations

venturi tube — see venturi tube

throat of a carburetor — see throat

Anagrams

• unrivet

Italian

Adjective

venturi

1. masculine plural of venturo

Latin

Participle

ventūrī

1. inflection of ventūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular