aperturein a sentence
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The higher the f-stop, the more closed the camera's aperture.aperture = a small opening -- especially one that controls the amount of light admitted for a camera or microscope
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It wandered along the crest of the hill and terminated before a fragment of wall pierced by a rough aperture which had once been a door. (source)
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Within the ranks of his arcane field, an advanced technology called synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, he is an eminence. (source)aperture = opening
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He and David were talking intently now about apertures and filters. (source)apertures = opening sizes that allow different amounts of light into a camera
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At the far end was the stone wall of the corrals, with apertures in the stone that were like loop-holes running all along the face of each corral. (source)apertures = small openings
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I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. (source)aperture = opening
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The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture. (source)aperture = opening (the open area within the door frame)
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Rocket launchers and mortar tubes hid under concrete covers with firing apertures.† (source)
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I can still picture her gripping the knife, her eyes fixed, focused, but where my father should be, there's an aperture in my memory.† (source)
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The next three weeks were a honeycomb of determination with apertures for the days to go in and out.† (source)
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Based on certain isolated information channels, plans are currently under way to build a global-scale very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) aperture-synthesis radio telescope system.† (source)
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It was a simple cube of granite, the size of a toolshed, it had no windows, no apertures of any kind, only a door of polished steel and a complex set of wire antennae branching out from the roof.† (source)
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Tally popped open the heart pendant, looking down into the little glowing aperture where the laser waited to read her eye-print.† (source)
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A ball thrown up so as to land on the platform at the top of the tower rolled down into the interior, fell on a rapidly revolving disk, was hurled through one or other of the numerous apertures pierced in the cylindrical casing, and had to be caught.† (source)
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Hopefully a good aperture.† (source)
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If you stand on its summit and look at these two F-shaped spoutholes, you would take the whole head for an enormous bass-viol, and these spiracles, the apertures in its sounding-board.† (source)
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