electron camera

noun

Electronics.

1. an apparatus that converts an optical image into a corresponding electric current by electronic means without the intervention of mechanical scanning.

Word History and Origins

Origin of electron camera¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Nevertheless, Lindenberg hopes the electron camera will go on to provide a ‘new, fundamental understanding of how these materials work’.

From Scientific American

The official pilot used an electron camera, giving a complete and overlapping series of pictures of the shore five miles away with incredible magnification and detail.

From Project Gutenberg

And only an electron camera could have used enough magnification to show one man laughing, as if at something the other had said.

From Project Gutenberg