Sluice (disambiguation)
Schleuse (from late Latin exclusa 'dam', 'weir' to Latin excludere 'exclude', 'reject', 'prevent'):
- A device for the transition between two areas with different properties that should not be mixed (e.g. different air pressures, different water levels, contaminated / not contaminated, contaminated / unpolluted, dirty / clean, etc.):
- a structure for raising and lowering ships, see lock
- a device to compensate for pressure differences or for reasons of hygiene (e.g. operating theater lock), see air lock
- a device for discharging bulk materials, see rotary valve
- a device for pigging in pipelines
- a security area between two rooms or departments in facilities, for example on isolation wards , see separation sluice
- Operational border locks at the Inner German border for the exchange of documents between East and West and for GDR agents to pass through the border. The agent lock at Berlin-Friedrichstrasse station became known .
- a river in southern Thuringia, see lock (river)
- a pipe for the drainage of properties and roads, see road drain
- a catheter that can be used to insert other catheters or instruments into a patient for medical purposes if necessary (for example, temporary pacemakers , central venous catheters and the work systems for cardiac catheter examinations )
- the German exonym of the Zeeland city of Sluis .
Schleuse is the family name of the following people:
- Ludwig von der Schleuse (1782–1845), Prussian major general, 2nd in command of the Stettin Fortress
See also:
Wiktionary: Schleuse - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
