Showing results for digital camera. Search instead for digital scanner.

digital camera

American

noun

Digital Technology.

a camera that records images in digital form by means of a device that converts the optical image to an electrical signal.

digital camera British

noun

a camera that produces digital images that can be stored in a computer, displayed on a screen and printed

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

digital cameras

plural

Etymology

Origin of digital camera

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

digital camera

Located high in the Chilean Andes, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory houses the world's most powerful digital camera.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2025

The point-and-shoot digital camera is one of the most prized rediscovered technologies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

Given that a digital camera is now in most every pocket, queer photography’s bracing fusion of the personal and the exotic is pretty threadbare, since exoticism no longer applies to being queer in American life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

Around his neck he always wears his prized possession, bought with months of savings: a digital camera.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2024

She buys a digital camera on Amazon with one click.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023