Valve (disambiguation)

• 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.
  • Mercury arc valve, a type of electrical rectifier which converts alternating current into direct current
  • 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
  • And see Valve#Types

Valve may also refer to:

• Vacuum tube, also called "thermionic valve", an electronic component
• Valve Corporation, a computer software/games company responsible for the best-selling Half-Life games
• Valve hall, a building which contains the valves of the static inverters of an HVDC plant
• Valve Records, a record label
• Valve, a paired clasping process on the male genitalia of a moth
• Valve (mollusc), One half of the shell of a bivalve mollusc, one of eight overlapping shells on a chiton