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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The finished surface or face on which the valve, by sliding or lifting, moves and fits to open and close the passage or passages which it is to control. In sliding-valves this face is a plane; in lifting-valves it is a plane or a segment of the surface of a cone.
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