aperture-priority

[ ap-er-cher-prahy-or-i-tee, -awr- ]

/ ˈæp ər tʃər praɪˌɒr ɪ ti, -ˌɔr- /

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adjective Photography.

of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the aperture and the camera selects the shutter speed.

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Also ap·er·ture-pre·ferred

[ap-er-cher-pri-furd]. /ˈæp ər tʃər prɪˌfɜrd/.

Compare shutter-priority.

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How to use aperture-priority in a sentence

In fact, in a recent study of their users internationally, it was the lowest priority for most.
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Current and former intelligence officials have said North Korea has long been a priority target for American spies.
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It's not necessarily a deal-breaker, but it is kind of a top priority.
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If we want that to change, then all of us have to encourage our legislators to make funding community policing a priority.
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“The tribe is really made of people who put travel as a priority in their entire lifestyle,” says Evita.
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In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
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Hilda suggested that the ticket-clerk should be interrogated, but the aperture of communication with him was shut.
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The light which discovered its dismal bounds to his solitary eyes, came from a small grated aperture in the vaulted roof.
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Indeed it could hardly have seemed possible to him, that the Duke could have withdrawn himself through that aperture.
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As Donovan described and figured this insect many years before Dr. Leach, his name has the right of priority.
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British Dictionary definitions for aperture-priority

aperture priority

noun

photog an automatic exposure system in which the photographer selects the aperture and the camera then automatically sets the correct shutter speedCompare shutter priority

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