pin hole

Minute light opening

A pin hole is a tiny opening the size a pin might make—small enough to seem insignificant but large enough to cause problems: Light leaked through a pin hole in the curtain, a pin hole in the radiator hose.

In photography, a pinhole camera uses such an aperture instead of a lens to project images.

Often written as one word: pinhole.

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needle · needle point · prick · perforation · lens · light · light leak · dark room · leak · dark · spot · small · pierce · dot · spy · peep · view · opening

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Opposites
size of opening

pin holegaping hole

chasm · crater · gulf · cavern · breach

nature of damage/breach

pin holetear

To pull apart

rip · gash · rupture · slash · rent

aperture in photography/optics

pin holefast lens

Wide-aperture photographic optic

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G