off camera

Variant of camera

camera definition

cam·era (kam′ər ə, kam′rə)

noun pl. cameras -·eras, camerae -·erae′ (-ər ē′)

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

  3. Etymology: < 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

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

camera Idioms

in camera

in privacy or secrecy

on (or off) camera

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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