Venturi vs. Orifice — What's the Difference?

A short tube with a constricted throat used to determine fluid pressures and velocities by measurement of differential pressures generated at the throat as a fluid traverses the tube.

An opening, especially to a cavity or passage of the body; a mouth or vent.

A constricted throat in the air passage of a carburetor, causing a reduction in pressure that results in fuel vapor being drawn out of the carburetor bowl.

A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.

A venturi tube.

A stupid or objectionable person.

The throat of a carburetor.

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.

A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.

An aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity;

United States architect (born in 1925)

A tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor)