acorn valve

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noun

a small electronic valve, approximately acorn-shaped with small closely-spaced electrodes, used in ultrahigh-frequency applications

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Words nearby acorn valve

acorn chair, acorn clock, acorn spoon, acorn squash, acorn tube, acorn valve, acorn worm, A Coruña, Acosta's disease, acotyledon, acouasm

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How to use acorn valve in a sentence

Such and such a time, such and such a day, then trouble with the valve.
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The flawed valve was rapidly replaced by a more robust system.
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Perhaps nowhere has an ACORN spin-off been as successful as one has in New York City.
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Action Now recently helped elect Toni Foulkes, a former Chicago ACORN leader, to the Chicago City Council.
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ACORN was able to do a lot of things for low-income people, but they were stopped.
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Every few days after that the boy took Squinty out of his pen, and let him do the rope-jumping and the acorn-hunting tricks.
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The two animal friends soon came to where some of the acorn nuts had fallen off a tree, and they ate as many as they wanted.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
A feed-pump forced water into the boilers; each had a safety-valve with a lever and weight.
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The valve-seat H has formed on its lower surface two crescent shaped long and narrow slits.
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The discharge-valve was then opened for a moment, allowing a blast of steam to escape, reducing the pressure say to one-half.
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