Camera (Japanese magazine)
WordNet
noun
(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
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Etymology
From camera obscura, dark chamber, because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room; from Latin camera, chamber or bedchamber, from Greek kamara ("vault".)
Noun
- A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
- The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game.
- 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete
- 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.
- 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete