aperture

Synthetic aperture radar operates by transmitting microwave pulses from a moving satellite or aircraft toward Earth's surface and then combining the returning signals into detailed images.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026

ASML’s more advanced high numerical aperture EUV systems face stitching and design constraints that are slowing adoption from customers, Scemama notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

In the video’s limited aperture, Gamble’s arrest alongside a suburban highway could have been anywhere.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

Cyclists completing the Whitehaven to Sunderland route are greeted with a view of Roker Lighthouse through an aperture, carved into a six-and-a-half-tonne slab of black granite.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

Forcefully the snake launched his great body at the opening, crumbling earth and rock as he pushed his coils through the aperture.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

To open it up to the street, the architects chose the motif of “frames, apertures and doorways.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Fractions of a second count and he can change apertures and focuses with a flick of his finger without taking his eyes from his quarry.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024

Multi-layer soft materials first generate a rough mechanical conformation to the substrate, reducing leaking apertures to just micrometres.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2024

Compared to today’s smartphones, older digital cameras have fewer megapixels, which capture less detail, and built-in lenses with higher apertures, which let in less light, both of which contribute to lower-quality photos.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2023

At the far end was the stone wall of the corrals, with apertures in the stone that were like loopholes running all along the face of each corral.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway