[ noun ] a small puncture that might have been made by a pin <noun.artifact>
In 1979, it inspected 14,000 coolers whose tanks might have had pinhole leaks that permitted the outside solder coating to get inside during manufacture, said Tom Klein, director of marketing for Halsey Taylor.
Besides the opaque filters and welder's goggles used at the museum, simple pinhole cameras were set up to reflect the eclipse on the back wall of a box.
Extracting the old lens through a pinhole is no use if the incision has to be enlarged to insert a big implant. The development of foldable lenses alleviates this problem.