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CLAPPERBOARD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clapperboard mean?
• CLAPPERBOARD (noun)
The noun CLAPPERBOARD has 1 sense:
1. photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together
Familiarity information: CLAPPERBOARD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("clapperboard" is a kind of...):
photographic equipment (equipment used by a photographer)
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