pinhole

Example Sentences

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Essentially, a camera is a chamber in which light is funneled through a pinhole.

From Salon

On satellite, Freddy had a pinhole eye six miles wide that recently emerged from a central dense overcast region.

From Washington Post

I knew it wasn’t an emergency such as a pinhole leak in a water supply pipe, which would cause a stream of water or a constant drip.

From Seattle Times

In particular, he revived an idea first floated in the 1920s that Vermeer made his paintings from inside a room-size camera obscura, a device that operates like a pinhole camera.

From New York Times

In some cases, thieves will also have hidden a pinhole camera to record the PINs entered into the keypad to go along with magnetic strip information captured by the skimmer.

From Los Angeles Times