All 3 Uses of
aperture
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge.†
Chpt 2 *
- 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.†
Chpt 8
- The woman was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and beautiful face.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(aperture) 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