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nozzle

[noz-uhl] / ˈnɒz əl /
NOUN
spout
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Then, once the athletes are sitting comfortably, he recommends they use sanitizing wipes to clean any areas they might touch: the seat belt, arm rests, air nozzle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

Inspectors also found old meat left in a mincer's nozzle and too few sinks for people to wash their hands at Kenya Butchers in West Street, Reading, run by KBH Meats Ltd.

From BBC ● May 10, 2025

It took me three hours to force the hose onto the pump nozzle, but I couldn’t cinch it up securely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025

HITS-Bio uses a digitally controlled nozzle array, an arrangement of multiple nozzles that moves in three dimensions and allows researchers to manipulate several spheroids at the same time.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

Besides the countersunk nozzle, Mr. Caton showed off his new design for attaching the fins to the casement.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Then it resembles an alien probe, filled with weird nozzles and mysterious hatches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Musk said the car was equipped with 10 nozzles and "ultra high-pressure air tanks" to propel itself into the air and accelerate quickly on the ground.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

In the pitch black of the mine, mud-splattered men with headlamps drill into the rock in two-man teams, using hydro drills with long, thin nozzles that shoot out pressurized water to loosen the ore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

He adds that he saves on pesticide spray since the nozzles only turn on when weeds are detected, as opposed to the kind of blanket spraying he used to do.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

I also had drawings of the nozzles and casements and how they worked.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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