aperture

But there was, indeed, a brief aperture of time in the pressure cooker of 2020 when it all seemed possible.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Cyclists completing the Whitehaven to Sunderland route are greeted with a view of Roker Lighthouse through an aperture, carved into a six-and-a-half-tonne slab of black granite.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

He brought out Kehlani for “Folded,” another perfectly regal ballad that revels in a small aperture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

"Synthetic aperture imaging -- the method that allowed the Event Horizon Telescope to image a black hole -- works by coherently combining measurements from multiple separated sensors to simulate a much larger imaging aperture."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2026

And with no controls—no aperture control, no focus—she learned to be creative in the ways she manipulated her camera and her scene.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

He never knows exactly what will be revealed in the resulting apertures.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

Also, the bedroom has several valve apertures in its canvas.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir