Usually means: Controls speed by regulating flow.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. throttles: Merriam-Webster
  2. throttles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. throttles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Throttles, throttles: Wordnik
  5. throttles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. throttles: Wiktionary
  7. throttles: Dictionary.com
  8. throttles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. throttles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throttles: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throttles: Encyclopedia

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  1. throttles: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (throttle)

noun:  A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
noun:  The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
noun:  (anatomy, archaic) The windpipe or trachea.
verb:  (transitive) To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
verb:  (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
verb:  (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
verb:  (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
verb:  (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
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