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The act of opening., An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall., The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

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The root of "aperture" is the Latin word "apertus," which means "open" or "uncovered." In Photography, aperture refers to the opening in a camera lens that controls the amount of light that passes through to the camera sensor.

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