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Definitions for Valved

[1] having or furnished with valves: a valved trumpet.
[2] any device for halting or controlling the flow of a liquid, gas, or other material through a passage, pipe, inlet, outlet, etc.
[3] a hinged lid or other movable part that closes or modifies the passage in such a device.
[4] Anatomy . a membranous fold or other structure that controls the flow of a fluid, as one that permits blood to flow in one direction only.
[5] (in musical wind instruments of the trumpet class) a device for changing the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone.
[6] Zoology . one of the two or more separable pieces composing certain shells. either half of the silicified shell of a diatom.
[7] Botany . one of the segments into which a capsule dehisces. a flap or lidlike part of certain anthers.
[8] Electronics (chiefly British ) . vacuum tube(def 1) .
[9] Archaic . one of the leaves of a double or folding door.
[10] to provide with a means of controlling the flow of liquid, gas, etc., by inserting a valve.
[11] any device that shuts off, starts, regulates, or controls the flow of a fluid
[12] anatomy a flaplike structure in a hollow organ, such as the heart, that controls the one-way passage of fluid through that organ
[13] Also called: tube , vacuum tube an evacuated electron tube containing a cathode, anode, and, usually, one or more additional control electrodes. When a positive potential is applied to the anode, electrons emitted from the cathode are attracted to the anode, constituting a flow of current which can be controlled by a voltage applied to the grid to produce amplification, oscillation, etc See also diode (def. 2), triode (def. 1), tetrode, pentode
[14] zoology any of the separable pieces that make up the shell of a mollusc
[15] music a device on some brass instruments by which the effective length of the tube may be varied to enable a chromatic scale to be produced
[16] botany any of the several parts that make up a dry dehiscent fruit, esp a capsule either of the two halves of a diatom cell wall
[17] archaic a leaf of a double door or of a folding door

Words nearby Valved

valve lifter, valve spring, valve stem, valve trombone, valve-in-head engine, valved, valvelet, valvoplasty, valvotomy, valvula, valvular

Origin of Valved

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin valvae leaves of a door

Other words from Valved

valve·less , adjective
valve·like , adjective
un·der·valve , noun

Word origin for Valved

C14: from Latin valva a folding door