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aperture
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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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Rocket launchers and mortar tubes hid under concrete covers with firing apertures.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The next three weeks were a honeycomb of determination with apertures for the days to go in and out.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Tally popped open the heart pendant, looking down into the little glowing aperture where the laser waited to read her eye-print.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Hopefully a good aperture.†  (source)
  • 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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