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Definition of Camera
1. Noun. Equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other).
Terms within: Aperture, Camera Lens, Optical Lens, Delayed Action, Diaphragm, Stop, Finder, View Finder, Viewfinder, Hood, Lens Hood, Cartridge, Magazine, Shutter, Sprocket
Specialized synonyms: 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
Generic synonyms: Photographic Equipment
2. Noun. Television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam.
Specialized synonyms: Camcorder
Terms within: Camera Lens, Optical Lens, Hood, Lens Hood, Mosaic, Television Pickup Tube, Television-camera Tube
Generic synonyms: Television Equipment, Video Equipment
Definition of Camera
1. n. A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
Definition of Camera
1. Noun. A device for taking still or moving pictures or (photograph)s. ¹
2. Noun. (video games) The (viewpoint) in a (three-dimensional) game or simulation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Camera
1. a judge's chamber [n -ERAS or -ERAE] : CAMERAL [adj]
Medical Definition of Camera
1. 1. A closed box; especially one containing a lens, shutter, and light-sensitive film or plates for photography. 2. In anatomy, any chamber or cavity, such as one of the chambers of the heart, or eye. Origin: L. A vault (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Camera
Literary usage of Camera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"ADJUSTMENTS OF THE camera.—The particular method used in adjusting the camera
... The following adjustments apply to a camera which can be placed on the ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"The inventor of the vertical camera in photography. In Science, No. 70, Mr. G.
Brown Goode says, concerning the Invention of the vertical camera, ..."
3. The Microscope: An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology by Simon Henry Gage (1903)
"169), small vertical camera with special microscope stand for embryos, etc. (Figs.
... Nothing would seem more natural than that the camera, armed with a ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Any article descriptive of photography would be incomplete without a brief notice
of the development of the camera. The inventor of the camera obscura was ..."
5. Bulletin by United States Weather Bureau (1902)
"THE camera APPARATUS. The telescope itself was first inclosed in a square wooden
box K, just large enough to receive it, as a foundation for the attachment ..."
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