What is "venturi"

Usage examples of "venturi".

The Selachii and the Venturi made a point, on occasions like this, to talk only about things on which there was no possibility of disagreement.

Jack didn't remember whether it was Bernoulli's Principle or the Venturi Effect, but he knew that it was something inferred, not actually seen, that enabled aircraft to fly.

The venturi tubes were okay and the combustion chambers undamaged.

The quarters might be cramped, but the hidy-hole was provided with Venturi comforts.

But in that long way the vital stage, the focal point, the nodal point, the venturi in the funnel, is Amsterdam.

I'm certain that paraboloidal jib uses the Venturi effect with malice aforethought.

He vowed to stop before the narrowing neck could create another venturi effect, but was so oppressed by now with high pressure that once more his judgement failed.

Then he went on to bore me with a lot of details about jet engines, the venturi effect, increasing lift by increasing camber with the flaps, and how after all four engines flame out the plane will turn into a 450,000-pound glider.

It also happened that the hurricane was blowing crosswise of the hatch opening, which treated us to a Venturi effect.

Otherwise the carburetor intake, which is a venturi tube, loses temperature so rapidly that it freezes the moisture in the air passing through it and stops the fuel flow.

With nothing to do now but grip the line, Pitt relaxed and went limp, allowing his body to be drawn against the flow of the underground current that gushed through the narrow slot like air through a venturi tube.

So they were ready for the things Riley had been cutting out of synthium at Corliss' directions, little Venturi tubes a foot long and three inches in maximum diameter, vith electrical connections.

Their box was a high density one, capable of transiting heavy beams, nuclear-drive components, venturi tubes, all the big stuff necessary for the construction of a spaceship in space.