Orifice

English

Noun

Orifice (plural Orifices)

1. A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as,
   • the orifice of an artery or vein
   • the orifice of a wound

Thesaurus

aperture, broaching, cavity, chasm, check, clearing, cleft, crack, disclosure, fenestra, fistula, fontanel, foramen, gap, gape, gat, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interval, lacuna, laying open, leak, opening, opening up, outlet, passageway, pore, slot, space, split, stoma, throwing open, uncorking, unstopping, vent, yawn

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin orificium (“an opening, literally the making of a mouth”), compound of os (“mouth”) + facere (“to make”)

Pronunciation

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Translations

mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe

Armenian: բացվածք (hy) (bac’vaçk’), անցք (hy) (anc’k’), ծակ (hy) (çak) Finnish: aukko (1), reikä (1) French: orifice (fr) m. German: Öffnung f. (1) Icelandic: (an opening) op (is) n., (a mouth) munnur (is) m.

Italian: orifizio (it) m., orificio (it) m. Japanese: くち (kuchi), 開口部 (かいこうぶ , kaikōbu ), 孔 (あな, ana) Portuguese: orifício (pt) m. Russian: отверстие (ru) (otvérstije) n. Scottish Gaelic: beul (gd) m.