camera
1[ kam-er-uh, kam-ruh ]
/ ˈkæm ər ə, ˈkæm rə /
noun,
a device for capturing a photographic image or recording a video, using film or digital memory.
(in a television transmitting apparatus) the device in which the picture to be televised is formed before it is changed into electric impulses.
adjective
Printing. camera-ready.
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- camembert,
- camenae,
- cameo,
- cameo glass,
- cameo ware,
- camera lucida,
- camera obscura,
- camera phone,
- camera tube,
- camera-ready
Idioms
- out of the range of a video camera, as a television or motion picture camera: The stunt woman was waiting just off camera for her cue to enter the scene.
- (of an actor) in one’s private rather than professional life: The two co-stars are best friends off camera.
off camera,
on camera, being filmed or televised by a live camera: Be sure to look alert when you are on camera.
Origin of camera
11730–35; shortening of camera obscura; 1840-45 for def 1; utimately < Latin camera vaulted room, vault; see camera2
camera
2[ kam-er-uh ]
/ ˈkæm ər ə /
noun, plural cam·er·ae [kam-uh-ree] /ˈkæm ə ri/.
a judge's private office.
Origin of camera
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camera
/ (ˈkæmərə, ˈkæmrə) /
noun
Word Origin for camera
C18: from Latin: vault, from Greek kamara
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camera
1708, "vaulted building," from Latin camera "vaulted room" (source of Italian camera, Spanish camara, French chambre), from Greek kamara "vaulted chamber."
The word also was used early 18c. as a short form of Modern Latin camera obscura "dark chamber" (a black box with a lens that could project images of external objects), contrasted with camera lucida (Latin for "light chamber"), which uses prisms to produce on paper beneath the instrument an image, which can be traced. It became the word for "picture-taking device" when modern photography began, c.1840 (extended to television filming devices 1928). Camera-shy is attested from 1890. Old Church Slavonic komora, Lithuanian kamara, Old Irish camra all are borrowings from Latin.
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camera
[ kăm′ər-ə, kăm′rə ]
n. pl. cam•er•ae (-ə-rē)
A chamber or cavity, such as one of the chambers of the heart or eye.
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