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Camera
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
"The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement."
- 2 equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) wordnet
- 3 The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
"If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process."
- 4 television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam wordnet
- 5 A vaulted room.
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- 6 A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber. (device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.
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