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cam⋅er⋅a

  [kam-er-uh, kam-ruh] noun, plural -er⋅as for 1,2, -er⋅ae  [-uh-ree] for 3, adjective
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–noun
1. a boxlike device for holding a film or plate sensitive to light, having an aperture controlled by a shutter that, when opened, admits light enabling an object to be focused, usually by means of a lens, on the film or plate, thereby producing a photographic image.
2. (in a television transmitting apparatus) the device in which the picture to be televised is formed before it is changed into electric impulses.
3. a judge's private office.
–adjective
4. Printing. camera-ready.
—Idioms
5. in camera,
a. Law. in the privacy of a judge's chambers.
b. privately.
6. off camera, out of the range of a television or motion-picture camera.
7. on camera, being filmed or televised by a live camera: Be sure to look alert when you are on camera.
Origin:
1700–10; < L camera vaulted room, vault < Gk kamára vault; see chamber
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cam·er·a   (kām'ər-ə, kām'rə)   


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n.  

  1. An apparatus for taking photographs, generally consisting of a lightproof enclosure having an aperture with a shuttered lens through which the image of an object is focused and recorded on a photosensitive film, plate, or sensor.

  2. The part of a television transmitting apparatus that receives the primary image on a light-sensitive cathode-ray tube and transforms it into electrical impulses.

  3. Camera obscura.

  4. pl. cam·er·ae (-ə-rē) A judge's private chamber.


[Late Latin, room; see chamber.]
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Word Origin & History

camera 
16c., in Mod.L. camera obscura "dark chamber" (a black box with a lens that could project images of external objects), from L. camera "vaulted room," from Gk. kamara "vaulted chamber," from PIE base *kam- "to arch." Contrasted with camera lucida (L., "light chamber"), which uses prisms to produce an image on paper beneath the instrument, which can be traced. Shortened to camera when modern photography began, 1840 (extended to television filming devices 1928). Camera-shy is from 1922.
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Medical Dictionary

camera cam·er·a (kām'ər-ə, kām'rə)
n. pl. cam·er·ae (-ə-rē)
A chamber or cavity, such as one of the chambers of the heart or eye.

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