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{{wikt}} 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]] {{Disambiguation}}
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