peephole
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A modern peephole, peekhole, spyhole, doorhole, magic eye, magic mirror or door viewer is a small, round opening through a door from which a viewer on the inside of a dwelling may "peek" to see directly outside the door. The lenses are made and arranged in such a way that viewing is only possible in one direction. The opening is typically no larger than the diameter of a button ().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “peephole” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.