Orifice vs Hiatus - What's the difference?
orifice | hiatus |
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 gap in a series, making it incomplete.
An interruption, break or pause.
An unexpected break from work.
(geology) A gap in geological strata.
(anatomy) An opening in an organ.
(linguistics)
# A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)
# The condition of having such a break.
As nouns the difference between orifice and hiatus
is that orifice is a mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as while hiatus is a gap in a series, making it incomplete.orifice
English
Noun
(en noun)hiatus
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The band took a hiatus for three months.
- Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
- Words like'' reality ''and'' naïve ''contain vowels in hiatus .