The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reducing \Re*du"cing\ (r?*d?"s?ng), a & n. from Reduce.
Reducing furnace (Metal.), a furnace for reducing ores.
Reducing pipe fitting, a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one.
Reducing valve, a device for automatically maintaining a diminished pressure of steam, air, gas, etc., in a pipe, or other receiver, which is fed from a boiler or pipe in which the pressure is higher than is desired in the receiver.
Usage examples of "reducing valve".
Certain persons, however, seem to be born with a kind of by-pass that circumvents the reducing valve.
Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.
To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.
Most people, most of the time, know only what comes through the reducing valve and is consecrated as genuinely real by the local language.
A small tank has been used as a pressure-reducing valve, and the smoothness of the engines aided.
The compressed oxygen roared through the reducing valve and an explosion of white bubbles rushed past my left ear.
Lucky cracked the reducing valve and let a blast of oxygen issue out.