Trap

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In plumbing, a trap is a U-shaped portion of pipe designed to trap liquid or gas to prevent unwanted flow, most notably to prevent sewer gases from entering buildings while allowing waste materials to pass through.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Trap (plumbing)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: McGeddon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.