valvé

  • 41valve — [14] The etymological notion underlying valve is of a door opening and closing. The word was adapted from Latin valva, which denoted one of the sections of a folding or revolving door, and may have had links with volvere ‘roll’ (source of English …

    Word origins

  • 42valve — noun Etymology: Latin valva; akin to Latin volvere to roll more at voluble Date: 14th century 1. archaic a leaf of a folding or double door 2. [New Latin valva, from Latin] a bodily structure (as the mitral valve) that closes temporarily a… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 43VALVE — n. f. T. de Conchyliologie Coquille. Ce mollusque a deux valves, il est bivalve. En termes de Botanique, il sert à désigner les Pièces qui forment un péricarpe sec. Les péricarpes des crucifères et des papilionacées ont deux valves, ils sont… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 44valve — bivalve trivalve univalve valve électrovalve …

    Dictionnaire des rimes

  • 45valve — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. damper, cutoff, cock, butterfly, pallet, poppet; ventil, side valve; plug, piston, cusp. See closure. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. flap, lid, plug; see device 1 , pipe 1 . Types of valves include:… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 46valve — noun (C) 1 a part of a tube or pipe that opens and shuts like a door to control the flow of liquid, gas, air etc passing through it: the valves of the heart 2 the part on a trumpet 1 (1) or similar musical instrument that you press to change the… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 47valve — /vælv / (say valv) noun 1. any device for closing or modifying the passage through a pipe, outlet, inlet, or the like, in order to control the flow of liquids, gases, etc. 2. a hinged lid or other movable part in such a device, which closes or… …

  • 48valve — ventilis statusas T sritis automatika atitikmenys: angl. chopper; gate element; valve vok. Einwegleitung, f; Gatter, n; Ventil, n rus. вентиль, m; клапан, m pranc. hacheur, m; porte, f; vanne, f …

    Automatikos terminų žodynas

  • 49valve — lempa statusas T sritis automatika atitikmenys: angl. lamp; tube; valve vok. Lampe, f; Röhre, f rus. лампа, f pranc. lampe, f; tube, m …

    Automatikos terminų žodynas

  • 50valve — vožtuvas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. flap; valve vok. Klappe, f; Ventil, n rus. клапан, m pranc. soupape, f …

    Fizikos terminų žodynas