venturi

After Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.

• IPA^(key): /vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/

venturi (plural venturis or venturi)

1. A venturi tube.
2. The throat of a carburetor.
3. (rare, pathology) A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading.

• venturi tube

• venturi effect
• venturi mask
• venturi scrubber

• unrivet

venturi

1. Plural form of venturo

ventūrī

1. nominative masculine plural of ventūrus
2. genitive masculine singular of ventūrus
3. genitive neuter singular of ventūrus
4. vocative masculine plural of ventūrus