pitot tube

English

Types of Pitot tubes

Etymology

Name for Italian-born French engineer Henri Pitot who invented the device in the early 1700s.

Noun

pitot tube (plural pitot tubes)

1. (aviation) A pressure measuring instrument used to measure fluid flow velocity, especially used to determine the airspeed of an aircraft.

Synonyms

• pitot head

Translations

pressure measuring instrument

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皮托管 (Pítuōguǎn)

• Finnish: pitot-putki (fi)
• French: tube de Pitot (fr) m
• Russian: приёмник возду́шного давле́ния m (prijómnik vozdúšnovo davlénija)
• Spanish: tubo de Pitot m

Further reading

• pitot tube on Wikipedia.Wikipedia