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  1. noun An apparatus for taking photographs, generally consisting of a lightproof enclosure having an aperture with a shuttered lens through which the image of an object is focused and recorded on a photosensitive film, plate, or sensor.
  2. noun The part of a television transmitting apparatus that receives the primary image on a light-sensitive cathode-ray tube and transforms it into electrical impulses.
  3. noun Camera obscura.
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  1. Late Latin, room; see chamber.

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  1. from Latin camera, camara, a vault (Middle Latin a chamber), from Greek καμάρα, a vaulted chamber, anything with au arched cover; akin to L. camur, curved, crooked, W. Irish Gaelic cam, crooked, Greek κάμπτειν, bend: see cam, camber, chamber, comrade.
 

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