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. Erik Pevernagie:

   A doorway is an ambiguous phenomenon, a liminal spot in a person’s life. A door can be a choice, a possibility, a protection or an aperture to new-fangled values. It can mean a barrier, a prison or a gate to freedom. It can, however, vanish in the mist of unawareness by lack of social concern. At that moment, our freedom has become our jail and we feel locked up in our own liberty. Any exit has waned: the doorway has been absorbed in the stupor of our infatuation. ( “In the doorway” )

3. Abraham Denmark:

   Renaming PACOM is ultimately a symbolic act ... (it) will have a very limited impact unless the U.S. follows through with a significant array of initiatives and investments that reflect a wider aperture.

4. 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.

5. Neera Tanden:

   The truth of it is Trump has shown... that there's a strong appetite for bold solutions to significant problems, trump's disruption, and many of his lunatic ideas, have widened the aperture of what's acceptable in the policy debates.