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APERTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An man-made opening; usually small
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("aperture" is a kind of...):
opening (a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aperture"):
embouchure; mouthpiece (the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly)
mouthpiece (a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A device that controls amount of light admitted
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("aperture" is a kind of...):
regulator (any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.)
Holonyms ("aperture" is a part of...):
camera; photographic camera (equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other))
scope; telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A natural opening in something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("aperture" is a kind of...):
hole (an opening into or through something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aperture"):
pupil (the contractile aperture in the center of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot)
micropyle (minute opening in the wall of an ovule through which the pollen tube enters)
pore; stoma; stomate (a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass)
Holonyms ("aperture" is a part of...):
eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)
Context examples:
In an instant Beppo, a skilful workman, made a small hole in the wet plaster, dropped in the pearl, and with a few touches covered over the aperture once more.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt grey wolf.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was indeed the full moon which shone straight down the aperture which opened upon the cliffs.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The part of the pharynx lying below the aperture of the larynx and behind the larynx; it extends from the vestibule of the larynx to the esophagus at the level of the inferior border of the cricoid cartilage.
(Laryngopharynx, NCI Thesaurus)
Although we did not have global coverage with synthetic aperture radar (SAR), we used data from other instruments and other modes from radar to correlate characteristics of the different terrain units so we could infer what the terrains are even in areas where we don't have SAR coverage.
(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)
An apparatus for taking photographs, generally consisting of a lightproof enclosure having an aperture with a shuttered lens through which the image of an object is focused and recorded on a photosensitive film or plate.
(Camera Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
Crawling on all fours, I made steadily but slowly towards them, till at last, raising my head to an aperture among the leaves, I could see clear down into a little green dell beside the marsh, and closely set about with trees, where Long John Silver and another of the crew stood face to face in conversation.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A NASA-developed airborne imager called a synthetic aperture radar took a detailed look at volcanoes in Central and South America during an Earth science study in late April and early May 2014.
(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)
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.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
