Meanings
- not comparableNot orificed.
Of the remaining 580 channels, 2.5 channels had no fuel element in them and no orifice. We assumed advisedly that these transmitted twice as much air as an unorificed, unplugged channel loaded with a fuel cartridge.
1951 July, Melville Clark, Jr., “Numerical Results and Conclusions”, in Axial Heat Distribution in Brookhaven Reactor (BNL-123), Upton, N.Y.: Brookhaven National Laboratory, →OCLC, page 172 more examples
The temperatures indicated in Fig. 3 show that the mixture of steam and air has not been promoted, as one portion of the radiator is hot while the other is practically cold. This is the way unorificed “hot-water” radiators generally perform.
1931 June 9, Karl W. Rohlin, “Effect of Turbulence on Mixture of Steam and Air in Radiators”, in Ely C. Hutchinson, editor, Power, volume 73, number 23, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 921, column 1Borderlessness is a contrived crisis since, for regeneration to take place requires an orificed, profligate, grotesque body. This last term is [Mikhail] Bakhtin’s, for whom bodily boundaries reflect social structure. The grotesque body – low, corpulent, devouring, permeable, disgusting and fecund – may be contrasted with the classical body – smooth, noble, unorificed, bordered.
1999, Carolyn Marvin, David W. Ingle, “Fresh blood, public meat”, in Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 256
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