pitot-static
Physics and Aeronautics
adjective
Designating a device consisting of a pitot tube inside or next to a parallel tube, the latter being closed at the end but with holes along its length, the pressure difference between the tubes being a measure of the relative velocity of the fluid. Also as noun: the device itself.
Origin
1920s.
- photoejection
- photoelastic
- photoelasticity
- photoelectric
- photoelectric absorption
- photoelectrically
- photoelectric cell
- photoelectric effect
- photoelectric emission
- photoelectricity
- photoelectrochemical
- photoelectrochemically
- photoelectromagnetic
- photoelectron
- photoelectronic
- photoelectronics
- photoelectron spectroscopy
- photoemission
- photoemissive
- photoemit
- photoemitted
- photoemitter
- photoemitting
- photoengrave
- photoengraved