Blow valve
() See Snifting valve. |
Cold-shut
(a.) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded |
Cold-shut
(n.) An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding. |
Double-beat valve
() See under Valve. |
D valve
() A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide. |
Element
(n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. |
Element
(n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed |
Element
(n.) One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything |
Element
(n.) One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole |
Element
(n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber. |
Element
(n.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed. |
Element
(n.) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered |
Element
(n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former. |
Element
(n.) One of the terms in an algebraic expression. |
Element
(n.) One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based |
Element
(n.) The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art |
Element
(n.) Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question |
Element
(n.) One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers |
Element
(n.) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire |
Element
(n.) the conditions and movements of the air. |
Element
(n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury. |
Element
(n.) The whole material composing the world. |
Element
(n.) The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper. |
Element
(v. t.) To compound of elements or first principles. |
Element
(v. t.) To constitute |
Kingston valve
() A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line. |
Shut
(imp. & p. p.) of Shut |
Shut
(v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress |
Shut
(v. t.) To forbid entrance into |
Shut
(v. t.) To preclude |
Shut
(v. t.) To fold together |
Shut
(v. i.) To close itself |
Shut
(a.) Closed or fastened |
Shut
(a.) Rid |
Shut
(a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed |
Shut
(a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are. |
Shut
(n.) The act or time of shutting |
Shut
(n.) A door or cover |
Shut
(n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding. |
Valve
(n.) A door |
Valve
(n.) A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid. |
Valve
(n.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction |
Valve
(n.) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts. |
Valve
(n.) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. |
Valve
(n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry. |
Valve
(n.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells. |
Valve-shell
(n.) Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. |
| valve | one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods |
| valve | the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs |
accelerator
throttle
throttle valve | a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine |
| ball valve | any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball |
| butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
clack valve
clack
clapper valve | a simple valve with a hinge on one side, allows fluid to flow in only one direction |
component
constituent
element | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up, especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system, spare components for cars, a component or constituent element of a system |
detector
sensor
sensing element | any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
| exhaust valve | a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold |
| heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
| heating element | the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat |
| intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
| logic element | an electronic device that performs an elementary logic operation |
pixel
pel
picture element | (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot), the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution |
poppet
poppet valve | a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat, commonly used in internalombustion engines |
rocker arm
valve rocker | a lever pivoted at the center, used especially to push a valve down in an internalombustion engine |
safety valve
relief valve
escape valve
escape cock
escape | a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler), it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level |
| slide valve | valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port |
sluicegate
sluice valve
floodgate
penstock head gate water gate | regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice |
threshold element
threshold gate | a logic element that performs a threshold operation |
tube vacuum tube
thermionic vacuum tube
thermionic tube
electron tube
thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
| valve | control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid |
| valve | device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone |
| valve-in-head engine | internalombustion engine having both inlet and exhaust valves located in the cylinder head |
mitral valve
bicuspid valve
left atrioventricular valve | valve with two cusps, situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle |
tricuspid valve
right atrioventricular valve | valve with three cusps, situated between the right atrium and the right ventricle, allows blood to pass from atrium to ventricle and closes to prevent backflow when the ventricle contracts |
| atrioventricular valve | either of two heart valves through which blood flows from the atria to the ventricles, prevents return of blood to the atrium |
| aortic valve | a semilunar valve between the left ventricle and the aorta, prevents blood from flowing from the aorta back into the heart |
| pulmonary valve | a semilunar valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery, prevents blood from flowing from the artery back into the heart |
| semilunar valve | a heart valve with cusps shaped like half-moons, prevents blood from flowing back into the heart |
heart valve
cardiac valve | a valve to control one-way flow of blood |
| valve | a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it |
| ileocecal valve | valve between the ileum of the small intestine and the cecum of the large intestine, prevents material from flowing back from the large to the small intestine |
pyloric sphincter
pyloric valve
musculus sphincter pylori | the sphincter muscle of the pylorus that separates the stomach from the duodenum |
| plot element | a component or element of the plot of a story |
component
constituent
element
factor
ingredient | an abstract part of something, jealousy was a component of his character, two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony, the grammatical elements of a sentence, a key factor in her success, humor: an effective ingredient of a speech |
| element | the most favorable environment for a plant or animal, water is the element of fishes |
invalid
shut-in | someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury |
| elements | violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements), they felt the full fury of the elements |
identity identity element
identity operator | an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates, the identity under numerical multiplication is |
| element | a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone |
| element of a cone | a straight line joining the apex and a point on the base |
| element of a cylinder | a straight line running the length of the cylinder |
| element | the situation in which you are happiest and most effective, in your element |
| mitral valve prolapse | cardiopathy resulting from the mitral valve not regulating the flow of blood between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart |
mitral stenosis
mitral valve stenosis | obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever) |
chemical element
element | any of the more than known substances (of which occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter |
| transuranic element | any element having an atomic number greater than (which is the atomic number of uranium), all are radioactive |
rare earth
rare-earth element
lanthanoid
lanthanide
lanthanon | any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers through ) |