aperture
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They will come with an improved camera that allows users to adjust the lens aperture.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The analyst also points to rising competitive pressure, with one rival now selling sonar systems independently and customers questioning the “cost of synthetic aperture sonar relative to the rapidly falling costs of autonomous vessels.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
And with no controls—no aperture control, no focus—she learned to be creative in the ways she manipulated her camera and her scene.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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
Only when approaching the smallest apertures, which were half a wingspan wide, would the birds automatically resort to the tuck and glide, even though they were unfamiliar with the setup.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
Despite the collection of doors and apertures in the set, the actors’ bodies inhabit it in limited ways.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
Dr. Geffard teaches her the names of shells—Lambis lambis, Cypraea moneta, Lophiotoma acuta—and lets her feel the spines and apertures and whorls of each in turn.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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