speed camera
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noun
a fixed camera that photographs vehicles breaking the speed limit on a certain stretch of road
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How to use speed camera in a sentence
After all, he had helped her when she got a ticket from a speed camera.
As the bullet leaves the gun it cuts a wire, which in turn snaps the shutter of a very high-speed camera.
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