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

After surgery, patients use augmented-reality glasses equipped with a video camera linked to a pocket-sized computer with a zoom feature worn at the waist.

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Patients then put on glasses with a built-in video camera.

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I found a guy with a video camera sleeping outside my house in Encino one day.

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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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Related Words

• camcorder