What is "apertures"

Usage examples of "apertures".

Close to the base of the walls were numerous smaller apertures, circular in shape, but larger than those of similar aspect that she had noted elsewhere.

In order to facilitate this operation, and to enfilade the base of the building, the upper stories projected several feet beyond the lower in the manner usual to blockhouses, and pieces of wood filled the apertures cut in the log flooring, which were intended as loops and traps.

It was an outfit full of slits and apertures, dynamic evening wear, extremely high-powered, rich in fetish content, and he found himself wishing to see her dressed in this ultraseductive apparel, aware of the irony of his desire, backing into the totally serene confusion of it all, the inverted fundamentalism of maleness allowed its answered prayer.

It glistened with panels of complex texture, and there were apertures in the silvery skin within which more machinery gleamed, unrecognizable.

Savage was relieved that she was fully covered by the terrible Day-Glo shell suit that illuminated their progress through the darkened apertures and unofficial entrances, but reason told him that few of the denizens of that place changed for bed.