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Camera
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What it means
- noun
A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
- noun
The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
- noun
A vaulted room.
Where it comes from
Camera is Latin for a room or a vaulted chamber, from Greek kamara. A camera obscura was a dark chamber that threw a picture onto a wall. When that chamber shrank into a box a person could carry, English kept the word camera for the box.
In a sentence
- What a cool camera!by CK, Tatoeba
- Face the camera, please.by CK, Tatoeba
- Turn the camera off.by CK, Tatoeba
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