as in hole
a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing
you can adjust the aperture on this camera's lens by pushing this button
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Recent Examples of aperture
Onboard Biomass is a P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument.
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Julian Dossett, Space.com, 12 May 2025
The latest model corrects course by doubling the laser aperture and more than halving the time necessary to get those same collagen-boosting benefits.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 May 2025
What’s The Best Way To Photograph The Northern Lights?
With a regular camera, a wide-angle lens, an aperture or F-stop of four or less and a focus set to the furthest possible setting are recommended for capturing the northern lights, photography experts told National Geographic.
—Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
To get granular data, the researchers behind the new study turned to interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) measurements taken from satellites.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
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Julian Dossett, Space.com, 12 May 2025
The latest model corrects course by doubling the laser aperture and more than halving the time necessary to get those same collagen-boosting benefits.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 May 2025
What’s The Best Way To Photograph The Northern Lights?
With a regular camera, a wide-angle lens, an aperture or F-stop of four or less and a focus set to the furthest possible setting are recommended for capturing the northern lights, photography experts told National Geographic.
—Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
To get granular data, the researchers behind the new study turned to interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) measurements taken from satellites.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aperture
Noun
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For decades, conservationists successfully plugged that hole by arguing in court that the ESA’s prohibition of harm to individual species includes destroying a species’ habitat.—
Emma Marris,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2025
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Other cavity nesters such as woodpeckers will make holes in trees, and those can also be adopted by tree swallows, flickers, kestrels and chickadees.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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His first foul came at the 3:08 mark of the opening quarter, bumping Obi Toppin out of bounds on a drive.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2025
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But Mbappe chose to distance himself from that debate and his opening season was different to Ronaldo’s.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
Noun
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This fleshy conglomerate feels vaguely seductive despite having only navels for orifices, only knee-like lumps for appendages.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
27 Nov. 2024
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Like other Ediacaran fossils, Quaestio doesn't seem to posses any orifices.—
David Bressan,
Forbes,
18 Oct. 2024
Noun
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The vacuum also comes with a crevice tool to target curtains, upholstery, and more.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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These included an extension wand and crevice tool, wide standard head, smaller upholstery tool, dusting brush, battery, charger, and mount.—
Stewart Savin,
Architectural Digest,
20 May 2025
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In the video circulated by TMZ, Lovato wore a strapless bridal gown with a dramatic thigh slit while the groom was decked out in a black tuxedo.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
25 May 2025
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In 2020, burglars crept into his game-farm, slit open a leather sofa, and disappeared with bundles of undeclared U.S. dollars—leaving the head of state, a Black farmer, both a victim of crime and a symbol of murky governance.—
Sizwe Mpofu Walsh,
Time,
23 May 2025
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“Aperture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aperture. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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