Weird Words: Aperture

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Aperture

Noun

• An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.
• (optics) Something which restricts the diameter of the light path through one plane in an optical system.
• (astronomy, photography) The diameter of the aperture (in the sense above) which restricts the width of the light path through the whole system.

Used in a sentence:

• There was a narrow aperture in the fence, far too small for his pursuers which was exactly what he needed, but was it too narrow for himself?

Source: Wiktionary

Commentary:

This word has been made some what famous by the video game Portal where the fictional company, Aperture Science, created a gun that creates portals one can teleport through. A great example of naming something as a kind of foreshadowing and/or pun.

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