'Camera' definitions:
Definition of 'camera'
From: WordNet
noun
Equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) [syn: camera, photographic camera]
noun
Television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam [syn: television camera, tv camera, camera]
Definition of 'Camera'
From: GCIDE
- Camera \Cam"e*ra\, n.; pl. E. Cameras, L. Camerae. [L. vault, arch, LL., chamber. See Chamber.] A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura. [1913 Webster]
- Bellows camera. See under Bellows.
- In camera (Law), in a judge's chamber, that is, privately; as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera.
- Panoramic camera, or Pantascopic camera, a photographic camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes. --Abney. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'camera'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achromatic lens,
- aerial reconnaissance camera,
- astigmatic lens,
- astrograph,
- box camera,
- burning glass,
- camera obscura,
- candid camera,
- cinematograph,
- coated lens,
- color camera,
- concave lens,
- concavo-convex lens,
- condenser,
- convex lens,
- eyeglass,
- eyepiece,
- glass,
- hand lens,
- Iconoscope,
- kinematograph,
- Kodak,
- lens,
- magnifier,
- magnifying glass,
- meniscus,
- miniature camera,
- minicam,
- motion-picture camera,
- movie camera,
- object glass,
- objective,
- objective prism,
- ocular,
- photochronograph,
- photocopier,
- photomicroscope,
- photopitometer,
- Photostat,
- portrait camera,
- precision camera,
- press camera,
- prism,
- reader,
- reading glass,
- reflex camera,
- SLR,
- spectroscopic camera,
- stereo camera,
- still camera,
- telephoto lens,
- television camera,
- toric lens,
- tripod camera,
- twin-lens reflex,
- varifocal lens,
- vest-pocket camera,
- X-ray machine,
- zoom lens
Words containing 'Camera'
- Camerae,
- Cameras,
- In camera,
- on camera,
- the camera,
- Bellows camera,
- Camera lucida,
- Camera obscura,
- Magazine camera,
- Panoramic camera,
- Pantascopic camera,
- box camera,
- camera angle,
- camera care,
- camera lens,
- camera operator,
- camera tripod,
- candid camera,
- digital camera,
- flash camera,
- movie camera,
- photographic camera,
- polaroid camera,
- portrait camera,
- reflex camera,
- schmidt camera,
- sound camera,
- television camera,
- tv camera,
- cine-camera,
- polaroid land camera,
- motion-picture camera,
- point-and-shoot camera,
- television-camera tube