video camera
Americannoun
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video cameras
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of video camera
1940–45
Example Sentences
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By then, the skies were getting too dark for the video camera to be of much use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
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.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2025
I found a guy with a video camera sleeping outside my house in Encino one day.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
Only a dozen people, including an intrepid Japanese tourist with a video camera, were in the audience that night.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
So I go down to the library and wait for like ten minutes for Miss Fowell to get back from somewhere and I asked her for a slip so I could get a video camera.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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