blowhole
Noun
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Noun
blowhole (plural blowholes)
- The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe.
- A vent for the escape of gas.
- A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled.
- (metallurgy) An unintended cavity filled with air in a casting product.
- (computer hardware) A vertical opening in the top of computer cases, that let hot air, primarily from the CPU heat sink, escape quickly.
- French: évent
- German: Blasloch
- Italian: sfiatatoio
- Portuguese: espiráculo, respiradouro
- Russian: ды́хало
- Spanish: espiráculo
- Italian: sfiatatoio
- Portuguese: respiradouro
- Russian: отду́шина
- German: Lunker
blowhole (blowholes, present participle blowholing; past and past participle blowholed)
- (metallurgy, ambitransitive) To fill or be filled with air in an unintended cavity.
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