venturi

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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

Translations

venturi tube — see venturi tube
throat of a carburetor — see throat

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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
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