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Noun: camera  kam-ru or ka-mu-ru
  1. Equipment for taking photographs, using a lens to focus light onto a CCD or (traditionally) light-sensitive film
    - photographic camera
     
  2. Television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam
    - television camera, tv camera

Derived forms: cameras

Type of: photographic equipment, television equipment, video equipment

Encyclopedia: Camera, Michael

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