Definitions for apertures

apertures ap·er·ture

Spelling: [ap-er-cher]
IPA: /ˈæp ər tʃər/

Apertures is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 476 anagrams from letters in apertures (aeeprrstu).

Definitions for apertures

noun

  1. an opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc.
  2. Also called aperture stop. Optics. an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.

Origin of apertures

1400-50; late Middle English Latin apertūra an opening, equivalent to apert(us) opened (past participle of aperīre; aper(i)- (see aperient) + -tus past participle

Examples for apertures

His book of essays, Photography After Frank, was recently published by aperture.

The third was with the same instrument and aperture, but with a power of 460.

“Administration officials favorite phrase these days is that, ‘you have to widen the aperture,’” says Bockenfeld.

But as this image shows, the nails actually went through an aperture in the wrists.

Together, shoulder to shoulder, we gazed through the aperture.

Then I stops the aperture below, by putting the chest agin it.

Then the aperture was closed with tiles or marble slabs, carefully cemented.

This Naka Machi had tossed into the aperture where the ape skin had been destroyed.

Its 8-megapixel camera, inclusive of true-tone and dual-LED f/2.2 aperture flashes, features optical image stabilization.

His book of essays, Photography After Frank , was recently published by aperture.

Word Value for apertures
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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