All 5 Uses of
aperture
in
Jane Eyre
- Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind?†
p. 20.9 *
- My eye was quickly at the aperture.†
p. 168.9
- The west, too, was warm: no watery gleam chilled it — it seemed as if there was a fire lit, an altar burning behind its screen of marbled vapour, and out of apertures shone a golden redness.†
p. 281.3
- The aperture was so screened and narrow, that curtain or shutter had been deemed unnecessary; and when I stooped down and put aside the spray of foliage shooting over it, I could see all within.†
p. 381.6
- I'll try if I cannot discover the secret spring of your confidence, and find an aperture in that marble breast through which I can shed one drop of the balm of sympathy.†
p. 428.5
Definition:
an opening -- especially a small 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