aperture
noun
an opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc.
apertures
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pluralof aperture.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Dudley hopes to conduct further experiments, perhaps with a sequence of different apertures, to determine how birds navigate multiple obstacles.
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
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
