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pinholes

pinholes is the plural of pinhole.

pinholes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pinhole.

Meaning of pinhole

Noun

pinhole (plural pinholes)

  1. A small hole, of a size that could have been made by a pin
  2. The aperture in a pinhole camera or camera obscura
    • These [the eyes of the nautilus] are the simplest eyes of any large living animal -- lensless 'pinholes' that project a hazy and rather dim image onto its retinas.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 216
  3. A port left unprotected by a firewall to allow a particular application to gain access to a service.
  4. A clipping of pinhole eye, which refers to the compact eye structure associated with intense tropical cyclones.

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Questions about pinholes

What is pinholes the plural of?
Pinholes is the plural of pinhole.

Words near pinholes in the dictionary

  1. pinhole
  2. pinhole camera
  3. pinhole cameras
  4. pinhole grass
  5. pinholed
  6. pinholes
  7. pinholing
  8. pinhook
  9. pinhooked
  10. pinhooker
  11. pinhookers

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