MOVIE CAMERA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession

Synonyms:

cine-camera; motion-picture camera; movie camera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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

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

sound camera (a movie camera that records sounds in synchrony with the visual images)

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