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Word: Valve
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English (denoting a leaf of a folding or double door): from Latin valva
valv
a device for controlling the passage of fluid or air through a pipe, duct, etc., especially an automatic device allowing movement in one direction only
Short Definition:device for controlling passage of fluid through pipe or duct
Examples:- a valve shuts off the flow from the boiler when the water is hot enough
each of the halves of the hinged shell of a bivalve mollusc or brachiopod, or of the parts of the compound shell of a barnacle.
Short Definition:each of halves of hinged shell of bivalve mollusc or brachiopod, or of parts of compound shell of barnacle
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