air-intake

1. 1.

   a duct that admits air to be mixed with fuel

   Broaderduct

   Part ofcarburetor

Questions about air-intake

What does air-intake mean?

air-intake means "a duct that admits air to be mixed with fuel".

How many syllables are in air-intake?

air-intake has 3 syllables and divides as ai-r-in-take under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is air-intake a common word?

air-intake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.