Camera Definition
kămər-ə, kămrə
camerae, cameras
noun
camerae, cameras
A chamber.
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
Any of various devices for recording or transmitting images or sequences of images, consisting essentially of a closed case with a lens that focuses incoming light on a sensitive material, as film, or on an electronic receptor.
Webster's New World
A judge's private chamber.
American Heritage
(video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- tv camera
- television-camera
- photographic camera
- photomicroscope
- magnifier
- minicam
- kinematograph
- astrograph
- slr
- kodak
idiom
in camera
- Outside of the public view:
The committee met in camera to discuss the report.
American Heritage
off camera
- Outside the field of view of a movie camera.
American Heritage
on camera
- Within the field of view of a movie camera.
American Heritage
in camera
- in a judge's private office rather than in open court
- in privacy or secrecy
Webster's New World
on (<i>or</i> off) camera
- so positioned as to be within (or out of) the camera's field of view
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Camera
Noun
Singular:
camera
Plural:
camerasOrigin of Camera
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From New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room; from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamara, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).
From Wiktionary
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Late Latin room chamber
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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