Both Uses of
aperture
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- When we first sighted it, it seemed to be empty, and, at first we thought that there was nothing suspicious about, until we saw some smoke issuing through an aperture at the side.†
Chpt 27 *
- The sergeant brought his lantern, and together the two men explored the little place: with a rapid glance Chauvelin noted its contents: the cauldron placed close under an aperture in the wall, and containing the last few dying embers of burned charcoal, a couple of stools, overturned as if in the haste of sudden departure, then the fisherman's tools and his nets lying in one corner, and beside them, something small and white.†
Chpt 30
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