Sentence examples for apertures from inspiring English sources

Some architects have proposed designs with concrete walls and small apertures that recall the screens in early Islamic architecture, but they have been rejected.

Circular apertures also produce diffraction patterns.

Leading-edge slots, which can be either fixed or deployable, are spanwise apertures that permit air to flow through a point behind the leading edge and, like the slat, are designed to smooth out the airflow over the wing at higher angles of attack.

There are several types, including one with a fish head at each end and human figures between them, another with apertures in the middle through which men put their heads, and one with representations of the moon.

Diffraction effects from circular apertures have an important practical consequence: the intensity patterns in optical images produced by circular lenses and mirrors are limited in their ability to resolve closely spaced features.

African mirlitons can be most imaginative: standard material is a spider's egg membrane, and this may be added to apertures pierced in the bottom of xylophone resonators or applied to one end of an independent cane tube that is inserted into a nostril, as among the Fang of Gabon and its neighbours.

He is planning Britain's first "astrovillage", one that would house the largest public observatory in the world and boast a 100-seat auditorium, a 100-seat planetarium, a one-metre aperture telescope, radiomagnetic and solar telescopes.

Ironically, the Chicago police department itself opened the aperture for a broader look into its behavior on Sunday, releasing a three-page "factsheet" attempting to refute the result of investigations by the Guardian.

Even from the ventilating aperture in the centre of the ceiling there were numbers of individuals to be seen peering upon the animated and densely crowded assembly below.

These satellites use synthetic-aperture radar, which can penetrate clouds and work at night.

In part, because the historical combination of having once been wide open, and then rapidly slamming shut, taught Japan how to control the aperture through which new ideas and practices streamed in.