Webcam
Use Webcam in a sentence noun ( often lowercase )
a digital camera whose images are transmitted, often in real time, over the World Wide Web.
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| a camera that transmits still or moving images over the internet | |
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Webcam
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Computing Dictionary
webcam definition
World-Wide Web, hardware, video(World-Wide Web camera) Any video camera whose output is available for viewing via the Internet or an intranet. Typically a webcam would be a slow-scan CCD video camera connected to a video capture card in a computer. Images from the camera are captured periodically and made available on a web page. In 1999 there are hundreds of webcams in operation around the world showing everything from bedrooms to traffic.
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(1999-01-11)
Example sentences
Webcam mic is oddly positioned at the right of the screen.
There's no webcam for those of us hoping to do video chats.
To make videoconferencing happen would require a box with some power in it, as well as a webcam.
Scientists and anyone else interested in the river can watch or operate the webcam from their web browser.
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