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Camera

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Noun

1. camera, photographic camera

equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)

2. camera, television camera, tv camera

television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Camera

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noun
1. 
an optical device consisting of a lens system set in a light-proof construction inside which a light-sensitive film or plate can be positioned
See also cine camera, digital camera
2. television
the equipment used to convert the optical image of a scene into the corresponding electrical signals
3.  camera obscura
4. plural -erae (-əˌriː)
a judge's private room
5.  in camera
6.  off camera
7.  on camera

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Camera

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nounWord forms: plural ˈcameras or ˈcamerˌae (ˈkæmərˌi ; kamˈərēˌ)
1. 
a chamber; specif., the private office of a judge
2. 
camera obscura
3. 
a device for taking photographs, consisting essentially of a closed box containing a sensitized plate or film on which an image is formed when light enters the box through a lens or hole
4.  Television
that part of the transmitter that consists of a lens and a special cathode-ray tube containing a plate on which the image to be televised is projected for transformation into electrical signals

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Camera

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n.
1. A usually portable device containing a photosensitive surface that records images through a lens.
2. A camera obscura.
3. pl. cam·er·ae (-ə-rē) A judge's private chamber.

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