off camera

Variant of camera

noun pl. cameras, camerae

  1. a chamber; specif., the private office of a judge
  2. camera obscura
  3. 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
  4. 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

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