camera

cam·er·a

A digital camera for photography.

noun

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

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

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camera

noun

pl. cam′eras; also for 1, -·erae·

a chamber: now only in in camera (see phrase below)
camera obscura
Origin of camera
< camera obscura
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

Origin of camera

Classical Latin camera, vault from Classical Greek kamara, vaulted chamber from Indo-European base an unverified form kam-, to arch

camera Idioms

in camera

in a judge's private office rather than in open court
in privacy or secrecy

on (or off) camera

so positioned as to be within (or out of) the camera's field of view

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camera

noun

A usually portable device containing a photosensitive surface that records images through a lens.
A camera obscura.
pl. cam·er·ae, A judge's private chamber.

Origin of camera

Late Latin room ; see chamber .

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Noun

(plural cameræ or cameras)

A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
(video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.

Related terms

in camera
camcorder
camera obscura
camera ready

Origin

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”).

See also: caméra

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camera - Computer Definition

(1) A stand-alone device that records still or moving images as analog scenes on film or as pixels in digital storage. Movie cameras, which are called "camcorders," also include a microphone for audio capture. The world of photography and movie making has migrated from film (analog) to digital, and all digital cameras can play back the recorded material on a small, built-in LCD screen. See digital camera, point-and-shoot camera, POV camera, DSLR and camcorder.

(2) A back-facing element in a smartphone or tablet that records still and moving images for later viewing.

(3) A front-facing element in a smartphone, tablet or laptop computer that captures and transmits images in real time for video calls. See video calling and Webcam.

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