Bourdon tube
noun
Definition of Bourdon tube
: a thin-walled flattened tube of elastic metal bent into a circular arc whose application to certain pressure gauges and thermometers depends upon the fact that increase of pressure inside the tube tends to straighten it — see bourdon gauge bourdon spring
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