slide valve

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   valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port

   Broadervalve

Questions about slide valve

What does slide valve mean?

slide valve means "valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port".

Is slide valve a common word?

slide 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.