Pinhole

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  • noun. A tiny puncture made by or as if by a pin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small hole made by the puncture or perforation of a pin; hence, any very small aperture.
  • noun. A minute perforation or transparency, as if made with the point of a pin, of which great numbers sometimes appear in the film of a photographic negative from some chemical defect or fault in manipulation.
  • noun. In archery, the exact center of the target. Hits in the gold are measured by their distance from the pinhole. Compare pin, n., 2 .
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small hole, of a size that could have been made by a pin
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  • noun. a small puncture that might have been made by a pin
  • Word Usage
    "The interesting thing about this system is it started off with what we call a pinhole eye -- very, very tiny eye, no more than four, five miles in diameter."
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