apertures
- plural of aperture.
Example Sentences
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Apertures collapse or expand and allow molecules to enter that would otherwise be too large to fit.
From Nature
Apertures are cut in the partitions, so that a person coming in from the front can be distinctly seen before he enters the apartment.
From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney
Apertures for firing through, in the walls of a fort.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Apertures were common in ancient sepulchral monuments, alike in Hindostan and England; one perforated stone is preserved as a relic in the precincts of an old church in modern Rome.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Inman, Thomas
In Chapter XVII., on Filling of Apertures, the reader will find another of these spaces noted, called the tympanum, and commonly of the form b, Fig.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John
