Usually means: Device regulating flow of fluids.
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We found 59 dictionaries that define the word valve:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. valve: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. valve: Merriam-Webster
  3. valve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. valve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. valve: Collins English Dictionary
  6. valve: Vocabulary.com
  7. Valve, valve: Wordnik
  8. valve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Valve, Valve, Valve, Valve: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. valve: Wiktionary
  11. valve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. valve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. valve: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. valve: Dictionary.com
  15. valve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. valve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. VALVe, Valve (company), Valve (developer), Valve (disambiguation), Valve (mollusc), Valve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Valve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. valve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. valve: Rhymezone
  21. valve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. valve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. valve: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. valve: FreeDictionary.org
  25. valve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. valve: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. VALVE: Band Terms
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. valve: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. valve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. valve: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Valve: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Valve: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. -valve, valve: Medical dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. VALVE: Acronym Finder
  3. valve: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. valve: Mussel Glossary
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Valve: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Landscape Irrigation Terms (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  7. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  8. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See valved as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
noun:  A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
noun:  (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction
noun:  One of the leaves of a folding-door, or a window-sash.
noun:  (British) A vacuum tube.
noun:  (botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
noun:  (botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
noun:  (biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
noun:  (biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
verb:  (transitive) To control (flow) by means of a valve.

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