CAMERA (camerae)

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Irregular inflected form: camerae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does camera mean? 

• CAMERA (noun)
  The noun CAMERA has 2 senses:

1. equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)

2. television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

  Familiarity information: CAMERA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

camera; photographic camera

Hypernyms ("camera" is a kind of...):

photographic equipment (equipment used by a photographer)

Meronyms (parts of "camera"):

hood; lens hood (a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera)

sprocket (roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through)

shutter (a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure)

aperture (a device that controls amount of light admitted)

camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)

delayed action (a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture)

diaphragm; stop (a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens)

cartridge; magazine (a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required)

finder; view finder; viewfinder (optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "camera"):

box camera; box Kodak (a simple camera shaped like a rectangular box)

candid camera (a miniature camera with a fast lens)

digital camera (a camera that encodes an image digitally and store it for later reproduction)

flash camera (a camera with a photoflash attachment)

cine-camera; motion-picture camera; movie camera (a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession)

point-and-shoot camera (a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus)

Polaroid camera; Polaroid Land camera (a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds)

portrait camera (a camera with a portrait lens)

reflex camera (camera that allows the photographer to view and focus the exact scene being photographed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

camera; television camera; tv camera

Hypernyms ("camera" is a kind of...):

television equipment; video equipment (electronic equipment that broadcasts or receives electromagnetic waves representing images and sound)

Meronyms (parts of "camera"):

camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)

hood; lens hood (a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera)

mosaic (transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube)

television-camera tube; television pickup tube (a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "camera"):

camcorder (a portable television camera and videocassette recorder)

 Context examples 

This original camera consisted of one large crystal in which gamma rays were converted to scintillations of light.

(Anger Camera, NCI Thesaurus)

The radioactive material collects in the bones and is detected by a scanner (a special camera that takes pictures of the inside of the body).

(Bone scan, NCI Dictionary)

A gamma camera (a special camera that detects radioactivity) is used to find prostate cancer cells in the body.

(Capromab pendetide, NCI Dictionary)

In-111 Satumomab pendetide emits gamma radiation and X-Ray photons that can be captured by gamma camera allowing imaging of TAG-72 expressing tissues.

(In 111 Satumomab Pendetide, NCI Thesaurus)

The OmegaCAM camera on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope has captured a view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29.

(Stellar Nursery Blooms into View, ESO)

In medicine, a procedure in which an infrared camera (one that senses heat) is used to measure temperature differences on the surface of the body.

(Infrared thermography, NCI Dictionary)

It may also be removed using a fine needle inserted through the chest wall, by surgery guided by a video camera inserted through the chest wall, or by an open biopsy.

(Lung biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

JunoCam is a color, visible-light camera which offers a wide-angle field of view designed to capture remarkable pictures of Jupiter's poles and cloud tops.

(NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains, NASA)

They use a special camera that detects radioactivity.

(Nuclear Scans, NIH)

It may also be done to look at the kidney using an endoscope (thin, lighted tube attached to a camera), to place anticancer drugs directly into the kidney, or to remove kidney stones.

(Nephrostomy, NCI Dictionary)