A short tube with a constricted throat used to determine fluid pressures and velocities by measurement of differential pressures generated at the throat as a fluid traverses the tube.
A constricted throat in the air passage of a carburetor, causing a reduction in pressure that results in fuel vapor being drawn out of the carburetor bowl.
[After Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746-1822), Italian physicist.]
Ven·tur·i (věn-tŏŏr'ē) American architect who led the postmodern reaction to functionalism. His eclectic, sometimes humorous designs often incorporate historical references.