Definition of venturi

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ven·tu·ri    (vn-tr) KEY  

NOUN:
pl. ven·tu·ris

1. A short tube with a constricted throat used to determine fluid pressures and velocities by measurement of differential pressures generated at the throat as a fluid traverses the tube.
2. A constricted throat in the air passage of a carburetor, causing a reduction in pressure that results in fuel vapor being drawn out of the carburetor bowl.

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ETYMOLOGY:
After Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746-1822), Italian physicist

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