camera

Etymology

From New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room; from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”). Doublet of chamber.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæm.ɹə/, /ˈkæm.əɹ.ə/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

camera (plural cameras)

1. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
   • 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:

     The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.

2. (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
   • 2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds

     If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.

   • 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete

     I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.

3. A vaulted room.
4. The judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

Further reading

• camera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• camera in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• camera in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• camera at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”).

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra

Noun

camera f (plural camera's, diminutive cameraatje n)

1. camera

Verb

camera

1. third-person singular simple future of camer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/

Noun

camera (plural cameras)

1. room, chamber

Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára).

Pronunciation

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Noun

camera f (plural camere)

1. room; chamber (all senses)
2. bedroom
3. assembly, parliament
4. camera (for taking moving pictures)

Anagrams

• macera

Etymology

From Latin camera.

Noun

camera f (plural cameres)

1. chamber, room

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

Etymology 2

A regularly conjugated form of camerō (verb).

Noun

camera f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of cameră.