ball valve

1. 1.

   any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball

   Broadervalve

Questions about ball valve

What does ball valve mean?

ball valve means "any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball".

Is ball valve a common word?

ball valve 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.