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English Dictionary: camera	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for camera
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
camera n equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) Synonym(s): camera, photographic camera television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam Synonym(s): television camera, tv camera, camera
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Camera \Cam"era\, n.; pl. E. {Cameras}, L. {Camerae}. [L. vault, arch, LL., chamber. See {Chamber}.] A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The {camera* obscura} when used in photography. See {Camera}, and {Camera obscura}. {Bellows camera}. See under {Bellows}. {In camera} (Law), in a judge's chamber, that is, privately; as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera. {Panoramic}, [or] {Pantascopic}, {camera}, a photographic camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes. --Abney.