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Orifice (disambiguation)
Orifice
An
orifice
is any opening,
mouth
, hole or vent, as in a pipe, a plate, or a body
Body orifice
, any opening in the body of a human or animal
Orifice plate
, a restriction used to measure flow or to control pressure or flow, sometimes given specialised names:
Calibrated orifice
, used to control pressure or flow
Restrictive flow orifice
, used to control flow
Miss Shilling's orifice
, used to control flow in the engines of early Spitfire and Hurricane fighter aeroplanes
Back Orifice
, a tendentious computer program designed for remote system administration
See also
Choked flow
Needle valve
Nozzle
Venturi effect
Flow measurement