ADJUTAGE. The effect of a tube fitted to an aperture on a vessel from which water is flowing, as in a jet or fountain. The term seems to have been derived from the effect of pipes, dilated at their extremity, in promoting the
Adjutant discharge of the fluid. (See Venturi & Michelotti Sperimenti Idraul.—Gilb. An. II. III.—Prony, Recher. Phys. Math.)