Definitions for CAMERA
ˈkæm ər ə, ˈkæm rəCAMERA

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. camera, photographic camera(noun)

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

2. television camera, tv camera, camera(noun)

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

Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. camera(Noun)

   A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.

2. camera(Noun)

   The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game.

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Camera(noun)

   a chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura

   Etymology: [L. vault, arch, LL., chamber. See Chamber.]

Freebase(2.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Camera

   A camera is an optical instrument that records images that can be stored directly, transmitted to another location, or both. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the word camera obscura, an early mechanism for projecting images. The modern camera evolved from the camera obscura.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Camera

   kam′ėr-a, n. the variety of camera-obscura used by photographers.—ns. Cam′era-lū′cida, an instrument by which the rays of light from an object are reflected by a specially shaped prism, forming an image on the paper underneath; Cam′era-obscū′ra, an instrument for throwing the images of external objects on a white surface placed within a dark chamber or box. [L.]

2. Camera

   kam′ėr-a, n. a vaulted room: the judge's private chamber (In camera, of a case heard there rather than in public court).—adj. Cam′erāted, divided into chambers: arched or vaulted.

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1. camera

   The camera symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the camera symbol and its characteristic.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'CAMERA' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3765

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'CAMERA' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2419

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'CAMERA' in Nouns Frequency: #1149

How to pronounce CAMERA?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say CAMERA in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CAMERA in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CAMERA in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of CAMERA in a Sentence

1. John Miller:

   What we've seen is written material that was prepared including charts delineating different roles that were made by protesters as far away as Hong Kong that depicted roles for whose job it was to throw objects at the police, whose job it was to record the police response on camera and turn that towards propaganda.

2. Fred Rogers:

   I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought,' there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.' ... The whole idea is to look at the television camera and present as much love as you possibly could to a person who might feel that he or she needs it.

3. Photographer Irina Werning:

   (Leanne's) picture is just a baby's snapshot. There's not much of a story behind it. I think she had gone inside there and her mother had found her inside there and went quickly to grab her camera, and shot the picture.

4. Michael Edmonson:

   As I told you, we took some of the body camera's footage, i'm not going to talk about it, but I'm going to tell you this : It is the most disturbing thing I've seen. And I'll leave it at that.

5. Butch Patrick:

   When I was physically working on the show, not in the camera, I always enjoyed the episode where the car was used because number one it was a hot rod. It was a very cool first hot rod on television, and number two it meant we would be outside, i enjoyed cars as a kid, so you could imagine that was a very cool thing for me to do.

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