Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

suction valve

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables: suc-tion -valve
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An automatic non-return valve that opens when the boiler is at less than atmospheric pressure so as to avoid any risk of vacuum collapse when a hot boiler is allowed to cool down out of service.

Inflected Forms

suction valves (plural)

Questions

What does suction valve mean?: An automatic non-return valve that opens when the boiler is at less than atmospheric pressure so as to avoid any risk of vacuum collapse when a hot boiler is allowed to cool down out of service.

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