VIEW FINDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does view finder mean? 

• VIEW FINDER (noun)
  The noun VIEW FINDER has 1 sense:

1. optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest

  Familiarity information: VIEW FINDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIEW FINDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

finder; view finder; viewfinder

Hypernyms ("view finder" is a kind of...):

optical device (a device for producing or controlling light)

Holonyms ("view finder" is a part of...):

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

gun-sight; gunsight (a sight used for aiming a gun)

scope; telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)