intake valve

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   a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake

   Broadervalve

   Part ofcylinder

Questions about intake valve

What does intake valve mean?

intake valve means "a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake".

Is intake valve a common word?

intake 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.