camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæm.ə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈkæm.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈkæm.ə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈkæm.ɚ.ə/
ipa: /ˈkæm.ɹə/
Forms: form: cameras
form: cameræ
form: camerae
Etymology: Learned borrowing 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”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber.
(device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
text: Glance up while strolling through parts of downtown Hong Kong and, chances are, you’ll notice the glassy black lens of a surveillance camera trained on the city’s crowded streets.
And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.
ref: 2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China”, in CNN:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds:
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
glosses: A vaulted room.
glosses: A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
Derived terms: aerial camera
aerocamera
Anger camera
backup camera
Baker-Nunn camera
body camera
body-worn camera
box camera
camback
camcorder
camera angle
camera clara
camera club
camera flash
camera fright
camera left
cameraless
cameralike
camera lucida
cameraman
camera move
camera obscura
cameraperson
cameraphone
camera phone
camera-ready
camera ready
camera rehearsal
camera right
camera roll
camera shake
camera shot
camera-shy
cameratic
camera trap
camerawoman
camera worker
camera-worker
camerist
camfecting
candid camera
CCTV camera
cine camera
ciné camera
cold camera
compact camera
dashcam
digital camera
digital still camera
document camera
fan camera
fan camera photography
game camera
gamma camera
gastrocamera
holocamera
in camera
instant camera
IP camera
Land camera
lightfield camera
lights, camera, action
magazine camera
make love to the camera
microcamera
minicamera
mirrorless camera
movie camera
multicamera
nanocamera
noncamera
off-camera
off camera
on-camera
on camera
piece to camera
pin camera
pinhole camera
rearview camera
red light camera
red-light camera
reflex camera
reversing camera
Schmidt camera
scintillation camera
security camera
selfie camera
speed camera
stereocamera
streak camera
stump camera
surveillance camera
the camera never lies
thermal camera
thermocamera
thermographic camera
trail camera
tricamera
tri-camera photography
video camera
view camera
wearable camera
webcamera
Related terms: bicameral
camerated