aperture

Example Sentences

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Expanding the receiver aperture can improve results, but only up to a certain limit.

From Science Daily

She stressed the importance of modernizing CBS and to “widen the aperture” of stories and voices available on the network.

From The Wall Street Journal

"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

It’s a study in negative space, each individual form offering a grainy aperture that holds our interest due to the minor similarities to and differences from the ones surrounding it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Narrator Jodie Foster widens the film’s aperture a bit early on, referring to the period “between Watergate and the Bicentennial” as the documentary’s focus.

From The Wall Street Journal