camera

The definition of a camera is an electronic device that captures pictures, movies or other visual images either digitally or on film.

(noun)

An example of a camera is a small electronic device with a lens that you use to take pictures.

See camera in Webster's New World College Dictionary

a chamber; specif., the private office of a judge
camera obscura
Origin: < camera obscura
a device for taking photographs, consisting essentially of a closed box containing a sensitized plate or film on which an image is formed when light enters the box through a lens or hole
TV that part of the transmitter that consists of a lens and a special cathode-ray tube containing a plate on which the image to be televised is projected for transformation into electrical signals

Origin: L camera, vault < Gr kamara, vaulted chamber < IE base *kam-, to arch

See camera in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

An apparatus for taking photographs, generally consisting of a lightproof enclosure having an aperture with a shuttered lens through which the image of an object is focused and recorded on a photosensitive film, plate, or sensor.
The part of a television transmitting apparatus that receives the primary image on a light-sensitive cathode-ray tube and transforms it into electrical impulses.
Camera obscura.
pl. cam·er·ae (-ə-rē) A judge's private chamber.

Origin:

Origin: Late Latin, room; see chamber

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