nozzle

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2. The pressure at the nozzle is about 20 lb.

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  1. noun A projecting part with an opening, as at the end of a hose, for regulating and directing a flow of fluid.
  2. noun Slang The human nose.

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  • Liquid hydrogen first cooled the nozzle, then flowed past long core rods of uranium coated with graphite, heating and expanding in the nozzle: basically, a flying steam kettle. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 03 - March 1997
  • Last Wednesday, Klayman held a press conference outside the cartel's quarters where he waved a gas pump nozzle at OPEC calling the nozzle a "smoking gun" that ties OPEC to the current financial disaster in the US Their artificial run-up in oil prices earlier this year set the stage for the economic problems we're now having, he said. —  The Reality Check
  • Bell's stage telephone was a large wooden box with a crude speaker-nozzle, the whole contraption about the size and shape of an overgrown Brownie camera. —  The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier
  • 2. The pressure at the nozzle is about 20 lb. —  The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do
  • The hole for the nozzle was drilled at an angle of 20 deg. —  The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do
 

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hose ·  valve ·  exhaust ·  inlet ·  cylinder ·  turbine ·  jet ·  tubing ·  pump ·  orifice ·  piston ·  outlet

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nozzle:   nozzles
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  1. Middle English noselle, socket on a candlestick, diminutive of nose; see nose.
 

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