valves
📖 中文释义
- n. 阀门；真空管；瓣膜（valve的复数）
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
原形 valve
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it
- n device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone
- n control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid
- n the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs
- n one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods