webcam
Americannoun
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webcams
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of webcam
First recorded in 1990–95; (World Wide) Web + cam(era)
Vocabulary lists containing webcam
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He would leave his webcam on for a full week, three times as long as his previous record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit group that oversees the webcam trained on the couple’s nest, announced Wednesday that name submissions are being accepted through April 26 on the group’s website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
Gizmo is wowing fans of the live webcam that monitors the Big Bear family of eagles that includes mom Jackie, dad Shadow and sibling Sunny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2026
One person “hooked up a webcam to it and was, like, watching their tomato plants grow,” said Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
“You gotta bring ’em with, mija!” he says as he moves the webcam to show me a med cart that he’s converted into a perfectly organized spice rack.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
The Brockmans are among the thousands across the globe who have watched Jackie and Shadow bond and raise chicks via webcams installed by the nonprofit, Anna Brockman said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
All four chicks could be seen on the charity's webcams on Friday morning as their mother fed them with fish.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
To communicate, everyone turns on webcams and installs a little-known app called Zoom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
A disheveled hiker came into the frame around 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Explore.org, a website that operates wildlife webcams around the world, including one on Dumpling Mountain.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
There was a new computer to transport, webcams and zip drives, an additional monitor.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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