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CAMERA
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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)
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.
(Capsule endoscopy, NCI Dictionary)
