valves

Meaning of valves

plural noun
  1. a device for controlling the passage of fluid or air through a pipe, duct, etc., especially an automatic device allowing movement in one direction only.
    a valve shuts off the flow from the boiler when the water is hot enough
  2. each of the halves of the hinged shell of a bivalve mollusc or brachiopod, or of the parts of the compound shell of a barnacle.

late Middle English (denoting a leaf of a folding or double door): from Latin valva .

Information about valves

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Hyphenation of valves

valves

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • valves is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

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