PINHOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pinhole mean? 

• PINHOLE (noun)
  The noun PINHOLE has 1 sense:

1. a small puncture that might have been made by a pin

  Familiarity information: PINHOLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PINHOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small puncture that might have been made by a pin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pinhole" is a kind of...):

puncture (a small hole made by a sharp object)

 Context examples 

A special gamma camera having only one pinhole instead of multiple parallel holes as its collimator.

(Pinhole Camera, NCI Thesaurus)