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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1. 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.

2. Edward Hoagland:

   Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

3. 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” )

4. Judie Worrell:

   If I'm playing a horn arrangement on keyboard, or strings, it sounds like strings or horns, 'cause I know how to phrase it, how a string phrases, different attacks from the aperture for horns, trumpets, sax or trombones.

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.