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Pinhole


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See also: pin-hole

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pin +‎ hole

Noun[edit]

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pinhole (plural pinholes)

  1. A small hole, of a size that could have been made by a pin
  2. The aperture in a pinhole camera or camera obscura
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 216:
      These [the eyes of the nautilus] are the simplest eyes of any large living animal -- lensless 'pinholes' that project a hazy and rather dim image onto its retinas.

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Verb[edit]

pinhole (third-person singular simple present pinholes, present participle pinholing, simple past and past participle pinholed)

  1. (transitive) To form one or more pinholes in.

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