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Camera
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| camera obscura
Camera
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Camera has 2 senses
- camera(n = noun.artifact) photographic camera - equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other); Array has parts: aperture, camera lens, optical lens, delayed action, diaphragm, stop, finder, view finder, viewfinder, hood, lens hood, cartridge, magazine, shutter, sprocket
- camera(n = noun.artifact) television camera, tv camera - television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam; Array has particulars: camcorder
has particulars: box camera, box kodak, candid camera, digital camera, flash camera, cine-camera, motion-picture camera, movie camera, point-and-shoot camera, polaroid camera, polaroid land camera, portrait camera, reflex camera
is a kind of photographic equipment
has parts: camera lens, optical lens, hood, lens hood, mosaic, television-camera tube, television pickup tube
is a kind of television equipment, video equipment
CIDE DICTIONARY
Camera, n. [L. vault, arch, LL., chamber. See Chamber.].
A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Camera, n.
1 an apparatus for taking photographs, consisting of a lightproof box to hold light-sensitive film, a lens, and a shutter mechanism, either for still photographs or for motion-picture film.
2 Telev. a piece of equipment which forms an optical image and converts it into electrical impulses for transmission or storage.
1 an apparatus for taking photographs, consisting of a lightproof box to hold light-sensitive film, a lens, and a shutter mechanism, either for still photographs or for motion-picture film.
2 Telev. a piece of equipment which forms an optical image and converts it into electrical impulses for transmission or storage.
Idiom
camera obscura an internally darkened box with an aperture for projecting the image of an external object on a screen inside it. camera-ready Printing (of copy) in a form suitable for immediate photographic reproduction. in camera
1 Law in a judge's private room.
2 privately; not in public. on camera (esp. of an actor or actress) being filmed or televised at a particular moment.
1 Law in a judge's private room.
2 privately; not in public. on camera (esp. of an actor or actress) being filmed or televised at a particular moment.
Etymology
orig. = chamber f. L camera f. Gk kamara vault etc.
THESAURUS
Camera
Iconoscope, Kodak, Photostat, SLR, X-ray machine, achromatic lens, aerial reconnaissance camera, astigmatic lens, astrograph, box camera, burning glass, camera obscura, candid camera, cinematograph, coated lens, color camera, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, eyeglass, eyepiece, glass, hand lens, kinematograph, lens, magnifier, magnifying glass, meniscus, miniature camera, minicam, motion-picture camera, movie camera, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, photochronograph, photocopier, photomicroscope, photopitometer, portrait camera, precision camera, press camera, prism, reader, reading glass, reflex camera, spectroscopic camera, stereo camera, still camera, telephoto lens, television camera, toric lens, tripod camera, twin-lens reflex, varifocal lens, vest-pocket camera, zoom lens
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