venturi effect

See also: Venturi effect

English

Etymology

Named after its inventor, the Italian physicist Giovanni Battista Venturi.

Noun

venturi effect (plural venturi effects)

  1. (physics, fluid mechanics) The reduction in fluid pressure that results when a fluid flows through a constriction.

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