ball valve

noun

: a valve in which a ball regulates the aperture especially by its rise and fall due to fluid pressure, a spring, or its own weight

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When vacuuming, your pool pump should always be set to filter, and the ball valve should be turned off. —

Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 12 June 2023 If a large whale inhaled a golf ball into its larynx--with only one path for air, not two like the nostrils--professor Reidenberg noted that the Titleist could act as a ball valve preventing the passage of air from the blowhole to the lungs and suffocate the whale. —

Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2013 Then, shortly after the tap, install a full-flow ball valve. —

Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2021 The Ivy Rain Barrels come with locking, child-proof lids and have protective screening against mosquitoes and a 3/4-inch ball valve to connect to a garden hose or another barrel. —

Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020 Hughes rotated a ball valve a quarter-turn to launch, and the rocket leapt skyward with an infernal hiss. —

David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020