Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An opening, such as a hole, gap, or slit.
- noun A usually adjustable opening in an optical instrument, such as a camera or telescope, that limits the amount of light passing through a lens or onto a mirror.
- noun The diameter of such an opening, often expressed as an f-number.
- noun The diameter of the objective of a telescope.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of opening out or unfolding.
- noun An opening; a hole, orifice, gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage or perforation; any direct way for ingress or egress.
- noun In geometry, the space between two intersecting right lines.
- noun In optics, the diameter of the exposed part of the object-glass in a telescope or other optical instrument.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of opening.
- noun An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole.
- noun (Opt.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.
- noun optics Something which restricts the diameter of the light path through one plane in an optical system.
- noun astronomy, photography The diameter of the aperture (in the sense above) which restricts the width of the light path through the whole system. For a telescope, this is the diameter of the objective lens. e.g. a telescope may have a 100 cm aperture.
- noun communication The (typically) large-diameter antenna used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency energy containing the data used in communication
satellites , especially in thegeostationary belt. For acomsat , this is typically a large reflectivedish antenna ; sometimes called an array. - noun mathematics, rare The maximum angle between the two
generatrices .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device that controls amount of light admitted
- noun an man-made opening; usually small
- noun a natural opening in something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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In retailing the size of the aperture is often used to provide shoppers with clues about what is in a store.
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If in the walls surrounding this cavity a small aperture is made through which radiation issues, we obtain a radiation which is independent of the nature of the emitting body, and is wholly determined by the temperature.
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The aperture is 20 ft. wide, and is still widening.
Foreign Intelligence 1863
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Josh: Well, we basically just looked up various words for different meanings and came up with the word aperture, which means an opening through which light is emitted.
Stories: Local News 2010
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I was reading through a section of my post from yesterday this afternoon and noticed that I called aperture apenture.
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a part of this stream of air, on each side of the edge of the aperture is perpetually stopped by that edge; and thus
Note XV 1803
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The aperture is a window, and it seems to me that we’re hoping for a door; a way to Be in Being that is more involved, engaged, and shadow-throwing than mere picture-taking.
Champagne : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The optical sleight of hand used by the astronomers combined the telescope's "adaptive optics" with a technique called aperture mask interferometry: using a a deformable mirror to rapidly correct for atmospheric distortions to starlight.
New planet, the youngest ever found, is revealed by cosmic trick photography 2011
djsalinger commented on the word aperture
There's a photography magazine called this.
It's got pictures in it.
May 26, 2009
senwick commented on the word aperture
I remember this word because a hole can be called a Portal, and the portal gun is made by Aperture Science.
July 9, 2009