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Definition
an opening — especially a small one that controls the amount of light admitted for a camera or microscopeor:
the measured diameter of the opening
- 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
or:
the measured diameter of the opening
or:
the measured diameter of the opening
- 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.Henry James -- The American
- He and David were talking intently now about apertures and filters.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado
- 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.Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises
- David must have been testing the range of his camera, keeping the subject the same and varying the focus, the aperture, the available light.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- She sat down on the chair, still warm from his flesh, and looked through the aperture.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- She turned and stood before Howard, his head bent over the aperture, watching his hand move across the sketch pad.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- The salesman, young and eager, had plied her with technical information about apertures and f-stops and wide-angle lenses.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- Within the ranks of his arcane field, an advanced technology called synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, he is an eminence.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- The dish, one of the most distinctive landmarks on the Fairbanks skyline, had been erected to collect data from satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radar of Walt McCandless's design.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- The next three weeks were a honeycomb of determination with apertures for the days to go in and out.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- I endeavored, but of course in vain, to look through the aperture.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
- By this time they were at the corner, where Edwards and Natty were in the act of drawing the almost helpless body of Benjamin through the aperture.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
- 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.Henry James -- The American
- A soft beam of light fell through the aperture, illuminating the crater's center, though it left the rest of the cavernous expanse in hushed twilight.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- Then he leaned the bushy spruces slantingly against this branch on both sides, quickly improvising a V-shaped shelter with narrow aperture in front.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- Raoul turned to the luminous aperture.Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
- "There's a new one here!" the woman called Frau Mikes called through the aperture.Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
- The large-aperture towed array was at the end of a thousand-foot cable.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
apertures = opening sizes that allow different amounts of light into a camera
aperture = opening
apertures = small openings
aperture = opening
aperture = opening
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