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How to use aperture in a sentence

35 example sentences · noun

Aperture means a small or narrow opening, gap, slit, or hole. Example: “This telescope has a 100 cm aperture.”

Examples of aperture by meaning

nounA small or narrow opening, gap, slit, or hole.

  • an aperture in a wall

nounThe diameter of such a hole which restricts the width of the lightpath through the whole system. For a telescope, this...

  • This telescope has a 100 cm aperture.

nounThe maximum angle between the two generatrices.

  • If the generatrix makes an angle θ to the axis, then the aperture is 2θ.

More sentences with aperture

  • A mixture of poor diet and poor hygiene caused him inflammation of the emunctory aperture.From the entry emunctory
  • Appendix Holotricha-Astomata: freeswimming, more or less completely and evenly ciliate throughout; no oral aperture.2016, Bob Gibbons, Green Guide to Seashore Life Of Britain And Europe, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry freeswimming
  • Ventrally the aperture is bordered by an incision, indicating the ventral attachment of the toothplate.2015, Vladimir Pokorný, John W. Neale, Principles of Zoological Micropalaeontology, →ISBN. From the entry toothplate
  • "When sampling the aperture of a telescope, using auto-collimating flats (ACFs) is more economical"2013 April 1, Spechler et al., “Advanced Dispersed Fringe Sensing Algorithm for Coarse Phasing Segmented Mirror Telescopes”, in NASA Tech…. From the entry flat
  • 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
  • The three basic aperture types are the colpus, the pore and the colporus.2003, Paul A Collinvaux, Paulo E. De Oliveira, Enrique Moreno, Amazon Pollen Manual and Atlas, page 66. From the entry colporus
  • In the personid genus Distorsio, varix formation is accompanied by a reorientation of the aperture.1995, Geerat J. Vermeij, A Natural History of Shells, page 31. From the entry varix
  • 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
  • In germinating grains the aperture membrane is pushed open like a lid.1952, Gunnar Erdtman, Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy, →ISBN, page 466. From the entry aperture membrane
  • The only opening into the inclosure was through a small aperture.1918, Edgar Rice Burrows, The People that Time Forgot, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008. From the entry inclosure
  • The shells were chitinoid, yellow in colour, and each aperture was situated on a slight protuberance.1901, Pamphlets on Protozoology (Kofoid Collection). From the entry amphistomous
  • The nasal aperture forms a more opened angle in the proviverrine Cynohyaenodon cayluxi and a slightly sharper angle in P.2015 September 24, “A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive…. From the entry proviverrine
  • 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
  • Referral transforms the geometry of an aperture.2011, William F. Harris, “Aperture referral in heterocentric astigmatic systems”, in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, volume 31…. From the entry heterocentric
  • Marginellas have smooth, shiny shells with an elongate, narrow aperture three-quarters or more of the total shell length.2008, George Branch, Two Oceans: A Guide to the Marine Life of Southern Africa, page 168. From the entry marginella
  • To stop down means to narrow the aperture; to stop up or open up means to expand it.2002, Kathleen Tracy, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Portrait Photography, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry stop up
  • 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
  • Yes, at two or more f-stops smaller than maximum aperture there should be a gain in sharpness, particularly in the corners.1992 September, Herbert Keppler, “How to Test Your Lens”, in Popular Photography, volume 99, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Magazines…. From the entry pincushion
  • Cocculinellids have a narrowly elliptical aperture and subcentral apex.1987, Fauna of Australia, volume 5, page 663. From the entry cocculinellid
  • The majority are multiocular and characteristically the test has a restricted aperture and internal foramina and a toothplate is often present.1981, J.R. Haynes, Foraminifera, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry toothplate
  • The principle applied to the aeolina was of a series of small springs fitted in apertures in a metallic plate, which vibrated when breathed over.2021, Edward J. Gillin, “The Laboratory of Harmony: The Transformation of Sound within British Science, 1815–46”, in Sound Authorities…. From the entry aeolina
  • However, the shells of modern nautiluses show the opposite pattern—males are somewhat larger than females, with a wider aperture to accommodate the spadix.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry spadix
  • Closing the aperture results in more collimated light, as only light traveling in the right direction can make it through the smaller opening.2012, Kurt Demaagd, Anthony Oliver, Nathan Oostendorp, Katherine Scott, Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV: The Simple Way to Make…. From the entry collimated
  • Apertures may be elliptical and decentred.2011, William F. Harris, “Aperture referral in heterocentric astigmatic systems”, in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, volume 31…. From the entry heterocentric
  • Unlike other lizards, chamaeleonids possess neither an exterior aperture nor a tympanic membrane, but they share some skeletal and fluid structure similarities with snakes.2009, François Le Berre, Richard D. Bartlett, The Chameleon Handbook, page 31. From the entry chamaeleonid
  • The excurrent apertures (called oscula because they look like little mouths) project their thin cone-shaped lips into the water stream passing over a sponge.2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 17. From the entry excurrent
  • Opisthaptor: four pairs of pedunculate suckers (cup-like and with circular or oval apertures) and a terminal languette 0.11 mm. long and 0.03 mm. broad.1968, Dawes, The Trematoda, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry languette
  • We analyzed data from continuous ambient vibration monitoring and concomitant crack aperture measurements at the Courthouse Mesa instability, a large toppling sandstone slab in Utah, USA.2024 June 27, Erin K. Jensen, Jeffrey Moore, et al, “Combined ambient vibration and surface displacement measurements for improved…. From the entry toppling
  • As a cell moves through the aperture it causes a blip (a brief change) in the voltage when the nonconductive cell briefly displaces the conductive medium.2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench, Cold…. From the entry blip
  • This development is opposite of 'lateral flattening' seen in Heterohelix glabrans (Cushman) in which chambers flatten rapidly and aperture is reduced to a narrow slit extending upface.1980, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India - Volume 25, page 61. From the entry upface
  • This current is then released, concentratedly, thru a narrow aperture formed by the dropping of a carefully restricted portion of the middle of the tongue tip.1929, Richard Carman Borden, Alvin Clayton Busse, Speech correction. From the entry concentratedly

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 aperture in a sentence

How do you use aperture in a sentence?
Aperture is used as a noun. For example: “This telescope has a 100 cm aperture.”
What is a short sentence with aperture?
“an aperture in a wall”
What does aperture mean?
Aperture means a small or narrow opening, gap, slit, or hole.

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