pinhole
针孔,小孔,针眼
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- : a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- : a hole for a pin to go through; tiny aperture.
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The two compartments would be separated by a wall with a shutter covering a pinhole just large enough for a gas molecule to pass through.
Example: "Sam, you have no idea how big this thing was…It was like putting like a watermelon into a pinhole."
He has long worked with different types of photography, including pinhole cameras and camera obscura.
Let us say that such a thing occurs; you have pricked one pinhole too many round the corner of the mouth.
(b) A small impurity in the rubber may dissolve in the acid and leave a minute pinhole.
Between eye and nostril, on either side, was the sinister "pinhole," that is the infallible mark of the poison-sac serpent.
The idea of photography as an art has been discussed no doubt ever since the invention of the pinhole.
In a dark-room a light must be placed behind the pinhole, and a bit of ground glass held in front of the lens.