valver
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a three-valver; a nine-valver; a rotary-valver"
- "The other day, for example, a giant of a set arrived- a ten-valver covering all the short-wave bands and also the medium."
- "When he finished his act, there was a tumult of hand -clapping, reproduced with great power by the nine-valver."
- "The carbureted, oversquare, 95.5 × 62.8mm, dohc four-valver uses a narrow 26-degree included valve angle for compactness."
- "Sorry, David, but I'm a little confused here, there was an implication that the set was a six-valver with two VP133's. If these were 2 IFamps, that suggests good gain and selectivity, if one was a tuned RF amp, it would fit in with the overall screening in keeping LO radiation down. Either way, it smacks of something a cut above the crowd."
- "The three-valver harks back to the 5.5-liter V-12 that first appeared in the Maybach 57 in 2002."
Etymology
From valve + -er.