Thesaurus: camera

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1. n. A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
2. n. equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)
3. n. television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam
4. 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.
5. A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: Thecamera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Cameraobscura. Bellows camera. See under Bellows.-- In camera (Law), in a judge's chamber, that is, privately; as, ajudge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera.-- Panoramic, or Pantascopic, camera, a photographic camera in whichthe lens and sensitized plate revolve so as to expose adjacent partsof the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through anarrow vertical slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes.Abney.
6. n:100 n. equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)