Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for extension tube. Search instead for tension-suture.

extension tube

American  

noun

Photography.

  1. any of a series of tubes of varying lengths placed between the lens and a camera body to facilitate closeup focusing.

Etymology

Origin of extension tube

First recorded in 1955–60

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

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training