aperture
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The 2025/26 away kit, manufactured by sportswear firm Hummel, features a repeating geometric pattern showing the lighthouse, viewed through a circular design resembling the sculpture's aperture.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
"Synthetic aperture imaging -- the method that allowed the Event Horizon Telescope to image a black hole -- works by coherently combining measurements from multiple separated sensors to simulate a much larger imaging aperture."
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
It’s a study in negative space, each individual form offering a grainy aperture that holds our interest due to the minor similarities to and differences from the ones surrounding it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
A camera’s aperture widens during filming to capture the full spectacle.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025
The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt grey wolf.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Vocabulary lists containing aperture
"The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
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50 Great Words from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
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