venturi effect

noun

venturi effect

noun

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

1

Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The reduction in fluid pressure that results when a fluid flows through a constriction.

Fluid mechanics

Derived terms
venturi injector, venturi tube

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