SIPHON

Siphon

The word siphon is sometimes used to refer to a wide variety of devices that involve the flow of liquids through tubes – see siphon terminology – but in the narrower sense it refers specifically to a tube in an inverted U shape which causes a liquid to flow uphill, above the surface of the reservoir, without pumps, powered by the fall of the liquid as it flows down the tube under the pull of gravity, and is discharged at a level lower than the surface of the reservoir it came from. Note that while the siphon must touch the liquid in the reservoir, it need not touch the liquid in the lower reservoir and indeed there need not be a lower reservoir – liquid can ...

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siphon

Noun

  1. A bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another.
  2. a soda siphon
  3. a tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants.

Verb

  1. to transfer (liquid) by means of a siphon.
    He used a rubber tube to siphon petrol from the car's fuel tank.


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