video camera

Or vid·e·o·cam·er·a

[vid-ee-oh-kam-er-uh, ‑-kam-ruh]

noun

1. a handheld or mounted portable camera intended for recording moving images in digital memory or on videotape.

Word History and Origins

Origin of video camera¹

1940–45

Example Sentences

And when his department, steeped in macho culture and eager for more mall arrests, starts deploying a video camera behind a one-way mirror, an increasingly anxious Lucas is made to feel nothing but risk about his identity.

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While he and his girlfriend were scouting locations, a thief grabbed their video camera.

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“There was no video camera ... so really it comes down to one thing — do you believe, Ms. Ellis, a guard with a good record? She is a model citizen,” he told jurors.

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Only a dozen people, including an intrepid Japanese tourist with a video camera, were in the audience that night.

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Agents also found a GoPro video camera with a memory card inside.

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Related Words

• camcorder