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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pitot is a noun meaning "French physicist for whom the Pitot tube was named (1695-1771)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
French physicist for whom the Pitot tube was named (1695-1771)
measuring instrument consisting of a right-angled tube with an open end that is directed in opposition to the flow of a fluid and used to measure the velocity of fluid flow
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pitot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.