pinhole

Honestly, I’ve never loved the pinhole strategy for selfie cameras since I find it more intrusive than a notch at the edge of the screen.
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The two compartments would be separated by a wall with a shutter covering a pinhole just large enough for a gas molecule to pass through.
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Example: "Sam, you have no idea how big this thing was…It was like putting like a watermelon into a pinhole."
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He has long worked with different types of photography, including pinhole cameras and camera obscura.
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Let us say that such a thing occurs; you have pricked one pinhole too many round the corner of the mouth.
Stained Glass Work|C. W. Whall
(b) A small impurity in the rubber may dissolve in the acid and leave a minute pinhole.
The Automobile Storage Battery|O. A. Witte
Between eye and nostril, on either side, was the sinister "pinhole," that is the infallible mark of the poison-sac serpent.
Lad: A Dog|Albert Payson Terhune
The idea of photography as an art has been discussed no doubt ever since the invention of the pinhole.
Adventures in the Arts|Marsden Hartley
In a dark-room a light must be placed behind the pinhole, and a bit of ground glass held in front of the lens.
The Barnet Book of Photography|Various

British Dictionary definitions for pinhole

pinhole

/ (ˈpɪnˌhəʊl) /

noun

a small hole made with or as if with a pin

archery the exact centre of an archery target, in the middle of the gold zone

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