Camera Definition–noun | 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 chan
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ged into electric impulses. | | 3. | a judge's private office. | –adjective —Idioms | 5. | in camera, | a. | Law. in the privacy of a judge's chambers. | | | 6. | off camera, out of the range of a television or motion-picture camera. | | 7. | on camera, being filmed or televised by a live camera: Be sure to look alert when you are on camera. | |
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