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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Camera \Cam"e*ra\, n.; pl E. {Cameras}, L. {Camerae}. [L.
vault, arch, LL., chamber. See {Chamber}.]
A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The
{camera obscura} when used in photography. See {Camera}, and
{Camera obscura}.
{Bellows camera}. See under {Bellows}.
{In camera} (Law), in a judge's chamber, that is privately;
as a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open
court in camera.
{Panoramic}, or {Pantascopic}, {camera}, a photographic
camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so
as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to
the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical
slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes. --Abney.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
camera
n 1: a light-proof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive
film at the other [syn: {photographic camera}]
2: lens system focuses image on a photosensitive mosaic that is
scanned by an electron beam [syn: {television camera}]
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