BALL VALVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ball valve mean? 

• BALL VALVE (noun)
  The noun BALL VALVE has 1 sense:

1. any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball

  Familiarity information: BALL VALVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALL VALVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("ball valve" is a kind of...):

valve (control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid)

 Context examples 

The part of a mechanical heart valve designed to contain and guide the occluder ball in a cage and ball valve.

(Heart Valve Cage Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)