Usually means: Opening designed for controlling flow.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word orifice:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. orifice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. orifice: Merriam-Webster
  3. orifice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. orifice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. orifice: Collins English Dictionary
  6. orifice: Vocabulary.com
  7. Orifice, orifice: Wordnik
  8. orifice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. orifice: Wiktionary
  10. orifice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. orifice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. orifice: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. orifice: Dictionary.com
  14. orifice: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Orifice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Orifice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. orifice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. orifice: Rhymezone
  19. orifice (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. orifice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. orifice: FreeDictionary.org
  22. orifice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. orifice: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. orifice: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. orifice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orifice: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. orifice: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Orifice: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Orifice: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. orifice: Medical dictionary
  7. Orifice: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orifice: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Orifice: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orifice: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. ORIFICE: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A stupid or objectionable person.

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