Valve (disambiguation)

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A valve is a device that regulates the flow of fluids. Types of such valves include:

• 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
• See also Valve types

Valve may also refer to:

• Vacuum tube, also called "thermionic valve", an electronic component
  • Mercury-arc valve, a type of electrical rectifier tube
• Valve Corporation, a computer game software company known for their best-selling Half-Life games
• Valve hall, a building which contains the valves of the static inverters of a high-voltage direct current plant
• Valve Records, an Australian record label
• Valve, a paired clasping process on the genitalia of male moths
• Valve (mollusc), the shell of a mollusc
• Valve (botany), part produced by the splitting of a capsule or pod when ripe