Valve vs Valvetrain - What's the difference?
valve | valvetrain |
A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
(anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.
(British) A vacuum tube.
(botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
(botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
(biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
(biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
To control (flow) by means of a valve.
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The collective mechanisms and parts that control the operation of the valves in an internal combustion engine.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 14, author=Don Sherman, title=Making Modern Horsepower the Old-Fashioned Way, work=New York Times
, passage=To coax their pushrod designs to rev higher without running out of breath, engineers have designed lighter, stiffer, lower-friction valvetrains . }}
As nouns the difference between valve and valvetrain
is that valve is a device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe while valvetrain is the collective mechanisms and parts that control the operation of the valves in an internal combustion engine.As a verb valve
is to control (flow) by means of a valve.valve
English
(wikipedia valve)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* exhaust valve * heart valve * vein valve * ileocecal valve * intake valve * non-return valve: see: non-return * safety valve * toggle valve * valved * valveless * valve oil * valvoplastyVerb
(valv)valvetrain
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia valvetrain)citation