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Plural of aperture

regular plural

The plural of aperture is apertures.

Forms of aperture

Singularaperture /ˈap.ə.t͡ʃə/
Pluralapertures
Countablecountable

Apertures in a sentence

  • The 'upper' is one of nine apertures through which consciousness can leave the body at death (utkrantih).2005, Shingo Einoo, Genesis and Development of Tantra, page 128. From the entry upper
  • This idea arose in view of the anomotreme pollen-grains studded with apertures.1988, Subhash Chandra Datta, Systematic Botany, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry anomotreme
  • When plane waves diffract through fractal-patterned apertures, the resulting far-field profiles or diffractals also exhibit iterated, self-similar features.2015, Matthew Moocarme, Luat T. Vuong, “Robustness via Diffractal Architectures”, in arXiv. From the entry diffractals
  • There are so many kinds of telescopes — so many apertures and different eyepieces and different held diameters.2000, Fred Schaaf, Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence: Part C, Academic Presser, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry ultraconcentration
  • Said sound producing means generates a sound which is allowed to emit from said casing through said plurality of apertures.1997, Emmanuel Saint-Victor, Illuminating and Sound Producing String Activated Rotatable Toy, US Patent 6083076 (PDF version). From the entry emit

Meaning of aperture

  1. noun A small or narrow opening, gap, slit, or hole.
  2. noun A hole which restricts the diameter of the lightpath through one plane in an optical system.
  3. noun The diameter of such a hole which restricts the width of the lightpath through the whole system. For a telescope, this is the diameter of the objective lens.

Full definition of aperture

Questions about the plural of aperture

What is the plural of aperture?
The plural of aperture is apertures.
Is aperture countable?
Aperture is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aperture (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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