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miniature camera

American  

noun

Photography.
  1. a small camera using film that is 35 millimeters wide or less.


miniature camera British  

noun

  1. a small camera using 35 millimetre film

"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

Etymology

Origin of miniature camera

First recorded in 1920–25

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A tube of lipstick hiding a miniature camera, issued to female K.G.B. spies during the 1970s.

From New York Times Oct. 26, 2023

“Albums suck. Albums are just miniature camera rolls,” he says.

From The Verge Mar. 16, 2021

For example, Lindquist uncovered footage of Andemariam Beyene undergoing bronchoscopies, the procedure in which doctors view a patient's airways with a miniature camera.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2016

The miniature camera attached to the end of the two long needles I’m clumsily manipulating doesn’t lie: I’m a lousy surgeon.

From Slate Nov. 7, 2013

A tiny red light glowed beneath a miniature camera on Heselton's desk and almost at once the alien's face registered obvious satisfaction.

From A Matter of Magnitude by Sevcik, Al

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