curtain shutter

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noun Photography.

a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.

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Also called roller-blind shutter.

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How to use curtain shutter in a sentence

After the curtain calls, Christopher comes back to explain a complicated math problem.
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They keep their heads low while running behind a large curtain covering the opening between two housing blocks.
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For anyone who cared to watch, the event and its denouement provided a graphic demonstration that the Iron Curtain was crumbling.
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The last time a Pope addressed the parliament in Strasbourg was in 1988 when an Iron Curtain still divided the continent.
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The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall.
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She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.
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I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.
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She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.
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We haven't even seen a review of the piece; the footlights go up with a jump, and now the curtain rises.
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The overture is over, the curtain is about to rise on the drama of Georgie's married life.
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