aperture
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The headline is the main camera’s new variable aperture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
They will come with an improved camera that allows users to adjust the lens aperture.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
Synthetic aperture radar operates by transmitting microwave pulses from a moving satellite or aircraft toward Earth's surface and then combining the returning signals into detailed images.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind?
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
There are pinholes in the murk, apertures such as the Instagram feeds of Gaza photographers and a small number of testimonies that slip through.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
Only when approaching the smallest apertures, which were half a wingspan wide, would the birds automatically resort to the tuck and glide, even though they were unfamiliar with the setup.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
The next three weeks were a honeycomb of determination with apertures for the days to go in and out.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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"The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
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