CINEMATOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cinematography mean? 

• CINEMATOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun CINEMATOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. the act of making a film

  Familiarity information: CINEMATOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CINEMATOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of making a film

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cinematography; filming; motion-picture photography

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

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

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

take (the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption)

animation (the making of animated cartoons)

Derivation:

cinematographer (a photographer who operates a movie camera)