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Definition
an opening — especially a small one that controls the amount of light admitted for a camera or microscope
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the measured diameter of the opening
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the measured diameter of the opening
- He and David were talking intently now about apertures and filters.p. 176.2
apertures = opening sizes that allow different amounts of light into a camera
- The salesman, young and eager, had plied her with technical information about apertures and f-stops and wide-angle lenses.p. 83.2
- She sat down on the chair, still warm from his flesh, and looked through the aperture.p. 184.9
- She turned and stood before Howard, his head bent over the aperture, watching his hand move across the sketch pad.p. 185.5
- David must have been testing the range of his camera, keeping the subject the same and varying the focus, the aperture, the available light.p. 363.8
There are no more uses of "aperture" in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
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