Sample Sentences foraperture (editor-reviewed)
-
•
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 -
•
Within the ranks of his arcane field, an advanced technology called synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, he is an eminence. (source)aperture = opening
-
•
I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
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
-
•
Above was a small round aperture through which poured a shaft of scalding sunlight.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 2 word variations
-
•
"There's a new one here!" the woman called Frau Mikes called through the aperture.† (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)
-
•
"We need a mechanism for sealing off the upper aperture too," Quentin said.† (source)
-
•
The next three weeks were a honeycomb of determination with apertures for the days to go in and out.† (source)
-
•
The clam's siphon came into view; they saw the aperture through which its neck had retreated.† (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)
-
•
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)
-
•
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)
-
•
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)
-
•
Rocket launchers and mortar tubes hid under concrete covers with firing apertures.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)