Twirl vs Aperture - What's the difference?
twirl | aperture | Related terms |
To perform a twirl.
To rotate rapidly.
* Dodsley
* Byron
An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.
* Gilpin
* Owen
(optics) Something which restricts the diameter of the light path through one plane in an optical system.
(astronomy, photography) The diameter of the aperture (in the sense above) which restricts the width of the light path through the whole system. For a telescope, this is the diameter of the objective lens. e.g. a telescope may have a 100 cm aperture.
(spaceflight, communications) The (typically) large-diameter antenna used for receiving and transmitting radio frequency energy containing the data used in communication satellites, especially in the geostationary belt. For a comsat, this is typically a large reflective dish antenna; sometimes called an array .
(mathematics, rare, of a right circular cone) The maximum angle between the two generatrices.
As nouns the difference between twirl and aperture
is that twirl is a movement where one spins round elegantly; a pirouette while aperture is an opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.As a verb twirl
is to perform a twirl.twirl
English
Verb
(en verb)- See ruddy maids, / Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.
- No more beneath soft eve's consenting star / Fandango twirls his jocund castanet.
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aperture
English
Noun
(en noun)- an aperture between the mountains
- the back aperture of the nostrils
- If the generatrix makes an angle ? to the axis, then the aperture is 2?.