Camera

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cam=er=a

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.

THESAURUS

Camera

Iconoscope, Kodak, Photostat, SLR, X-ray machine, 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, kinematograph, lens, magnifier, magnifying glass, meniscus, miniature camera, minicam, motion-picture camera, movie camera, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, photochronograph, photocopier, photomicroscope, photopitometer, portrait camera, precision camera, press camera, prism, reader, reading glass, reflex camera, spectroscopic camera, stereo camera, still camera, telephoto lens, television camera, toric lens, tripod camera, twin-lens reflex, varifocal lens, vest-pocket camera, zoom lens