Valve in a sentence

More often, however, players use the fourth valve in place of the first and third valve combination, which is somewhat sharp (compensated for on trumpets and cornets and some three-valve flugelhorns by a slide for the first or third valve).

Venous/deoxygenated blood returns to the heart through the tricuspid valve (TV) and pulmonary valve (PV); and arterial/oxygenated blood leaves the heart through the mitral valve (MV) and aortic valve (AV).

Cylinder heads fitted with cast-iron inlet valve guides, phosphor bronze exhaust valve guides, and renewable "Silchrome" steel-alloy valve seats.

Early designs used the D slide valve but this has been largely superseded by Piston valve or Poppet valve designs.

The first valve lowers the instrument's pitch by a whole step (2 semitones ), the second valve by a half step (1 semitone), and the third valve by one-and-a-half steps (3 semitones).

The shut off butterfly valve for a Francis turbine at Gordon Power Station, Tasmania Ball valve A closed soft seated valve is much less liable to leak when shut while hard seated valves are more durable.

Trumpet valve bypass (depressed) In most trumpets and cornets, the compensation must be provided by extending the third valve slide with the third or fourth finger, and the first valve slide with the left hand thumb (see Trigger or throw below).

Valve "1" increases the tubing length enough to lower the pitch by one whole step, valve "2" by one half step, and valve "3" by one and a half steps.

Valve electrometers Valve electrometers use a specialized vacuum tube (thermionic valve) with a very high gain ( transconductance ) and input resistance.

A person may need surgery on their mitral valve if the mitral valve is hardened (calcified).

Plant personnel manually opened the drag valve as the plant was taken offline, and the valve was opened after 22 minutes, at which point the noise abated.

Additionally, the sphincter valve controlling the flow of digested material from the small intestine to the large intestine (ileocecal valve) is also located on the right.

Some players have been randomly invited by Valve to play the game, possibly based on their history with other Valve titles, but the easiest way to get in is to ask someone in the playtest to invite you, which is an in-game menu option.

The inspectors also found an open-ended line from a valve and a second valve in a different location that were leaking about 542 ppm of benzene, just above the EPA limit.

They're often able to save and use the single valve the child does have to serve as their aortic valve.

Even though valve masks adequately protect the wearer, they fall short because of the valve design which only filters air breathed in, but not breathed out.

This means the steam release valve automatically closes when you close the lid, so you don’t have to worry about whether you remembered to seal the valve or whether or not you positioned it correctly.

When a standard N95 mask with a valve was tested, a large cloud of particles also escaped through the valve, but the vent directed the plume downward.

Alex was born with a congenital heart defect, which required open heart surgery to insert a donor valve when he was two weeks old, and then again aged 18 months, after the first heart valve became less effective and needed replacing.

Meanwhile, he also told Ars on Thursday morning that he had yet to receive any communication from Valve and that he remained locked out of the Valve bug-reporting section of HackerOne.