Synonyms for aperture
ˈæp ər tʃəraper·ture

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1. aperture

   Synonyms:
   opening, gap, chasm, fissure, cleft

   Antonyms:
   closure, blocking up, seclusion, imperviousness, blank wall, shutting up

Princeton's WordNet

1. aperturenoun

   a device that controls amount of light admitted

2. aperturenoun

   a natural opening in something

3. aperturenoun

   an man-made opening; usually small

Matched Categories

1. • Eye
   • Hole
   • Opening
   • Regulator

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1. aperturenoun

   Synonyms:
   opening, hole, perforation, LOOP-HOLE, passage, eye, eyelet, hollow, cavity

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1. List of paraphrases for "aperture":

   opening, openness, orifice, opening-up, commencement, slit

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How to use aperture in a sentence?

1. Deb DeHaas:

   You need to widen the aperture of where you're looking.

2. Thomas Wolfe:

   Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.

3. Erik Pevernagie:

   The upper lip must never tremble. Some fear to be abused and have their identity destroyed, if they make an aperture in the curtain of their emotions. (“The upper lip must never tremble”)

4. Harvey Fineberg:

   That's the brilliance of Kelvin Droegemeier, to elicit this kind of input and turn to the academics in the first place, they're genuinely trying to widen their aperture for advice, and I think so far it's working.

5. The Marine:

   At IOC, the F-35B targeted in real time, talked to forward air controllers over the radio and data-link, and put weapons on target. The F-35B can provide close air support in threat environments where our current platforms would not survive, and the synthetic aperture radar gives us a through-the-weather targeting capability where the majority of our legacy targeting systems are simply ineffective.