CAMERA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: camerae

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

camera; photographic camera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

photographic equipment (equipment used by a photographer)

Meronyms (parts of "camera"):

sprocket (roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through)

shutter (a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure)

cartridge; magazine (a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required)

hood; lens hood (a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera)

finder; view finder; viewfinder (optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest)

diaphragm; stop (a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens)

delayed action (a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture)

camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)

aperture (a device that controls amount of light admitted)

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

box camera; box Kodak (a simple camera shaped like a rectangular box)

candid camera (a miniature camera with a fast lens)

digital camera (a camera that encodes an image digitally and store it for later reproduction)

flash camera (a camera with a photoflash attachment)

cine-camera; motion-picture camera; movie camera (a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession)

point-and-shoot camera (a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus)

Polaroid camera; Polaroid Land camera (a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds)

portrait camera (a camera with a portrait lens)

reflex camera (camera that allows the photographer to view and focus the exact scene being photographed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

Synonyms:

camera; television camera; tv camera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

television equipment; video equipment (electronic equipment that broadcasts or receives electromagnetic waves representing images and sound)

Meronyms (parts of "camera"):

camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)

hood; lens hood (a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera)

mosaic (transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube)

television-camera tube; television pickup tube (a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals)

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

camcorder (a portable television camera and videocassette recorder)

Credits

Context examples:

It is a capsule that is about the size of a large pill, with a lens, a light, a camera, a radio transmitter, and a battery inside.

(Capsule endoscope, NCI Dictionary)

In 111 Folic Acid emits gamma radiation and X-Ray photons that can be captured by gamma camera allowing imaging of tumor cells that express folate receptors.

(In 111 Folic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Images are obtained by a scintillation camera.

(Immunoscintigraphy, NCI Thesaurus)

This radioimmunoconjugate emits gamma radiation and X-Ray photons that can be captured by gamma camera, allowing imaging of Lewis Y expressing tissues.

(In 111 Monoclonal Antibody B3, NCI Thesaurus)

In-111 MoAb LL2 emits gamma radiation and X-Ray photons that can be captured by gamma camera allowing imaging of tumor cells that express CD22 antigen.

(In 111 Monoclonal Antibody LL2, NCI Thesaurus)

In-111 MoAb Lym-1 emits gamma radiation and X-Ray photons that can be captured by gamma camera allowing imaging of tumor cells that express HLA-DR antigen.

(In 111 Monoclonal Antibody Lym-1, NCI Thesaurus)

Diaphranography (transillumination light scanning) is a non-invasive imaging procedure for the detection and evaluation of breast disease, by visualizing lesions through a television camera sensitive to infrared light.

(Diaphranography, NCI Thesaurus)

For some imaging tests, doctors insert a tiny camera attached to a long, thin tube into your body.

(Diagnostic Imaging, NIH)

In a laparoscopic-assisted colectomy, several small incisions are made and a thin, lighted tube attached to a video camera is inserted through one opening to guide the surgery.

(Colectomy, NCI Dictionary)

The capsule contains a tiny wireless camera that travels through the digestive tract.