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cable release

American

noun

Photography.

a device consisting of a flexible wire that is pressed at one end to trip a shutter mechanism on a camera.

cable release British

noun

a short length of flexible cable, used to operate the shutter of a camera without shaking it

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Etymology

Origin of cable release

First recorded in 1955–60

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The family, along with other Bellevue Japanese Americans, was stripped of property and incarcerated at Tule Lake, Calif., eventually gaining release to work as migrant labor in sugar beet fields of northern Montana.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2021

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