Wondering how to use Pinhole in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as puncture.
Pinhole meaning
- A small hole, of a size that could have been made by a pin
- The aperture in a pinhole camera or camera obscura
- A port left unprotected by a firewall to allow a particular application to gain access to a service.
Synonyms of Pinhole
Using Pinhole
- The main meaning on this page is: A small hole, of a size that could have been made by a pin | The aperture in a pinhole camera or camera obscura | A port left unprotected by a firewall to allow a particular application to gain access to a service.
- Useful related words include: puncture.
- In the example corpus, pinhole often appears in combinations such as: pinhole camera, the pinhole, pinhole cameras.
Context around Pinhole
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pinhole
- In this selection, "pinhole" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, little, cardboard, via, camera, leaks and projector stand out and add context to how "pinhole" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a little pinhole and a pinhole camera is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pinhole" sits close to words such as abattoirs, aberrant and abike, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pinhole
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pinhole projectors are frequently used to safely observe eclipses. (9 words)
I was telling the office the problem when it was a little pinhole. (13 words)
He created the first pinhole camera after observing how light traveled through a window shutter. (15 words)
Turning your back to the sun during the eclipse, look through the uncovered hole in the box and position yourself so that light enters the pinhole and the shape of the sun is projected onto the white paper inside the box as the eclipse progresses. (45 words)
Last year, more than 2,000 people from 57 countries made pinhole images – usually projecting inverted images of the outside world on to their inside walls – and uploaded them on to a gallery of pictures taken on that day. (39 words)
Mark Fields II suffered a “pinhole puncture” of his lung on a tackle and is expected to miss a couple of weeks, while suffered an apparent leg injury, the nature and severity of which has not yet been disclosed. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
A pinhole camera is basically any container that holds light sensitive material that is exposed through a tiny pinprick in a small metal plate.
However, another way to watch the eclipse if you don’t have the eclipse glasses is to make a pinhole projector.
I was telling the office the problem when it was a little pinhole.
Once the device forms a “pinhole” (the pinch), it is in the early stages of degradation.
Pinhole projectors are frequently used to safely observe eclipses.
There, he taught his eager charges how to make photograms (camera-less images), construct cardboard pinhole cameras and make formally accomplished portraits of their fellow prisoners.
Turning your back to the sun during the eclipse, look through the uncovered hole in the box and position yourself so that light enters the pinhole and the shape of the sun is projected onto the white paper inside the box as the eclipse progresses.
Last year, more than 2,000 people from 57 countries made pinhole images – usually projecting inverted images of the outside world on to their inside walls – and uploaded them on to a gallery of pictures taken on that day.
Mark Fields II suffered a “pinhole puncture” of his lung on a tackle and is expected to miss a couple of weeks, while suffered an apparent leg injury, the nature and severity of which has not yet been disclosed.
He saw that painting in the collection of the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and reimagined it via pinhole camera in 2006.
Take your ruler and draw an X in the center of the side of the box where you want to put the pinhole.
A hole in the cave wall will act as a pinhole camera and project a laterally reversed, upside down image on a piece of paper.
As the pinhole is made smaller, the image gets sharper, but the projected image becomes dimmer.
As this trait developed, the eye became effectively a pinhole camera which allowed the organism to dimly make out shapes—the nautilus is a modern example of an animal with such an eye.
Detection of pinhole leaks would come from a visual or olfactory inspection, aerial surveying, or mass-balance inconsistencies.
He created the first pinhole camera after observing how light traveled through a window shutter.
He used Tycho Brahe's method of observation, which was to project the image of the sun on a piece of paper through a pinhole aperture, instead of looking directly at the sun.
It is assumed that pinhole leaks are discovered within the 14-day inspection interval, however snow cover and location (e.g. remote, deep) could delay detection.
New Haven:Yale University Press. pg 39 In the book, he was also the first to study the phenomenon of the pinhole camera citation and delved further into the way the eye itself works.
Originally, an observer had to enter an actual room, in which a pinhole was made on one wall.
Common combinations with pinhole
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: