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| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | A valve design in which hydraulic force is used to open a bypass to feed water from the discharge side of a pump back to the suction side when a predetermined pressure is exceeded. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
non return valve | 15 |
check non return valve | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RETURN VALVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | kontraventil (backwater flap, clack valve, disk of a swing check valve, non-return valve, relief valve, stop valve, swing-type check mechanism, valve clack of a check valve, valve flap of a check valve), klapkontraventil (dart valve, non-return valve, relief valve, stop valve). (various references) | |
Dutch | keerklep (non-return valve, relief valve, ship's clack valve, shutoff valve, stop valve, stop-and-check valve, stopcock). (various references) | |
German | Rückschlagventil (check valve, non-return valve). (various references) | |
Greek | βαλβίδα άνευ επιστροφής (non-return valve, relief valve, stop valve), ανακουφιστική βαλβίδα (ball valve, bleeder, bleeder valve, breather valve, discharge valve, emergency valve, non-return valve, overflow valve, pass valve, pressure control valve, relief valve, safety valve, snifter valve, snifting valve, stop valve, vacuum relief valve, waste gate), ατμοφράκτης (non-return valve, relief valve, stop valve). (various references) | |
Italian | valvola di ritenuta (backwater flap, clack valve, non-return valve, relief valve, stop valve), valvola di ritegno (non-return valve, relief valve, stop valve), valvola di arresto (non-return valve, relief valve, stop valve). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eturnray alvevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | válvula de retenção (check valve). (various references) | |
Spanish | valvula de retencion (non-return valve, relief valve, stop valve). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-r-r-t-u-v-v" | |
-3 letters: eventual, levanter, relearnt, relevant, renature, revenual, taverner, traveler, ureteral, venturer. | |
-4 letters: alerter, alterer, enteral, eternal, learner, nervate, nervule, nervure, neutral, raveler, ravener, realter, relater, relearn, revalue, teleran, terrane, unravel, vaulter, vaunter, ventral, venture, venular, veteran, vulvate. | |
-5 letters: antler, avenue, earner, elater, eluant, eluate, eluent, entera, errant, lateen, laveer, leaner, learnt, leaven, leaver, levant. | |
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