CONTRACTED ORIFICE

  

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CONTRACTED ORIFICE

Specialty Definition: CONTRACTED ORIFICE

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

An orifice having its downstream end so far removed from the bounding surface of the water prism in the channel of approaches or other surfaces of a disturbing nature, that the filaments of water are fully contracted or deflected before they emerge from the orifice. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CONTRACTED ORIFICE

Language Translations for "CONTRACTED ORIFICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

indsnaevret udmunding. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vernauwde buis. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kavennettu aukko. (various references)

   

French

  

orifice avec contraction complète. (various references)

   

German

  

eingeschnuertes Auslassrohr. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στόμιον πλήρους συστολής. (various references)

   

Italian

  

luce con contrazione completa. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ontractedcay orificeay

   

Portuguese

  

orifício com contracção completa. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

orificio con contracción completa. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utloppsmynning med minskad sektion. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CONTRACTED ORIFICE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-d-e-e-f-i-i-n-o-o-r-r-t-t"

-4 letters: decortication, deterioration.

-5 letters: certificated, contradictor, decorticator, redecoration, retrodiction.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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