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Found 1 definition: camera.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun camera has 2 senses

1. camera(n = noun.artifact) 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);
is a kind of photographic equipment
has parts: aperture, camera lens, optical lens, delayed action, diaphragm, stop, finder, view finder, viewfinder, hood, lens hood, cartridge, magazine, shutter, sprocket
has particulars: box camera, box kodak, candid camera, digital camera, flash camera, cine-camera, motion-picture camera, movie camera, point-and-shoot camera, polaroid camera, polaroid land camera, portrait camera, reflex camera

2. camera(n = noun.artifact) 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;
is a kind of television equipment, video equipment
has parts: camera lens, optical lens, hood, lens hood, mosaic, television-camera tube, television pickup tube
has particulars: camcorder

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

camera, n. [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.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

camera, n.
1 an apparatus for taking photographs, consisting of a lightproof box to hold light-sensitive film, a lens, and a shutter mechanism, either for still photographs or for motion-picture film.
2 Telev. a piece of equipment which forms an optical image and converts it into electrical impulses for transmission or storage.

Idiom:
camera obscura an internally darkened box with an aperture for projecting the image of an external object on a screen inside it. camera-ready Printing (of copy) in a form suitable for immediate photographic reproduction. in camera
1 Law in a judge's private room.
2 privately; not in public. on camera (esp. of an actor or actress) being filmed or televised at a particular moment.

Etymology:
orig. = chamber f. L camera f. Gk kamara vault etc.