单词 | camera |
释义 | camera /kam"euhr euh, kam"reuh/, n. , pl. cameras for 1,2, camerae /-euh ree/ for 3, adj. n. 1. a boxlike device for holding a film or plate sensitive to light, having an aperture controlled by a shutter that, when opened, admits light enabling an object to be focused, usually by means of a lens, on the film or plate, thereby producing a photographic image. 2. (in a television transmitting apparatus) the device in which the picture to be televised is formed before it is changed into electric impulses. 3. a judge's private office. 4. in camera, a. Law. in the privacy of a judge's chambers. b. privately. 5. off camera, out of the range of a television or motion-picture camera. 6. on camera, being filmed or televised by a live camera: Be sure to look alert when you are on camera. adj. 7. Print. camera-ready. [1700-10; < L camera vaulted room, vault < Gk kamára vault; see CHAMBER] |
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