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cam⋅er⋅a
[kam-er-uh, kam-ruh] 
ər
noun, plural -er⋅as for 1,2, -er⋅ae [-uh-ree] for 3, adjective –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
—Idioms| 4. | Printing. camera-ready. |
| 5. | in camera,
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| 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. |
cam⋅er⋅a-read⋅y
[kam-er-uh-red-ee, kam-ruh-] –adjective Printing.
| (of text or illustrations) ready to be photographed. |
Also, camera.
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cam·er·a (kām'ər-ə, kām'rə)  (click for larger image in new window) n.
[Late Latin, room; see chamber.] |
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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. 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, 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.
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Language Translation for : camera
Spanish:
cámara fotográfica, cámara,
German:
die Filmkamera,
Japanese:
カメラ
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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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