A valve is a device that regulates the flow of fluids.
Valve may also refer to:
Types of valves
- Piston valve, a part in many brass instruments, used to control notes.
- Poppet valve, a valve consisting of a hole and a tapered plug on the end of a shaft, typically used in instruments, engines, etc.
- Heart valve, valves in the heart that maintain the unidirectional flow of blood
- Vein valve, valves in veins and other fluid cords in body
- Lymphatic valve, valves in lymphatic vessels
- Vacuum tube, also called "thermionic valve", an electronic component
- Mercury-arc valve, a type of electrical rectifier tube
Biology
- Valve (mollusc), the shell of a mollusc
- Valve (diatoms), the siliceous unit that makes up one half of a diatom cell
- Valve (botany), part produced by the splitting of a capsule or pod when ripe
- Valve, a paired clasping process on the genitalia of male moths
Companies
- Valve Corporation (also known as Valve Software or Valve), a video game developer and digital distribution company
- Valve Records, an Australian record label
- Valve Amplification Company, a U.S. high end audio electronics company
Other uses
- Valve hall, a building which contains the valves of the static inverters of a high-voltage direct current plant
- The Valves, UK band
See also
- All pages with titles containing valve or valves
- All pages with titles beginning with Valve
- Valve amplifier (tube amplifier)
- Valve gear
- Valve train
- Valveless
- Valvetronic