camera
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)Synonyms: photographic camera
- television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beamSynonyms: television cameratv camera
Webster's Dictionary (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]