Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overhead valve

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English

Syllables: over-head- -valve
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of valve in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder head (and therefore above the piston). The camshaft can be beside the pistons (with pushrods and rockers operating the valves) or above the valves, with the latter usually referred to as overhead cam.

Example Sentences

"This engine has overhead valves."
"This engine is an overhead valve model."
"This engine is an overhead valve."

Inflected Forms

overhead valves (plural)

Derived Forms

OHV

Frequently Paired Words

overhead cam OHC side valve flathead L-head

Synonyms

OHV

Questions

What does overhead valve mean?: A type of valve in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder head (and therefore above the piston). The camshaft can be beside the pistons (with pushrods and rockers operating the valves) or above the valves, with the latter usually referred to as overhead cam.

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