Usually means: Device controlling light, capturing images.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. shutter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shutter: Merriam-Webster
  3. shutter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shutter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shutter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shutter: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shutter, shutter: Wordnik
  8. shutter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shutter: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. shutter: Wiktionary
  11. shutter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. shutter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. shutter: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. shutter: Dictionary.com
  15. shutter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. shutter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Shutter (photography), Shutter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Shutter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. shutter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. shutter: Rhymezone
  21. shutter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. shutter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. shutter: FreeDictionary.org
  24. shutter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. shutter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. shutter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shutter: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. shutter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shutter: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shutter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shutter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Shutter: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  3. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)
  4. Shutter: Construction Glossary
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See shuttered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who shuts or closes something.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
noun:  (photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
noun:  Any other opening and closing device.
verb:  (transitive) To close shutters covering.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.
verb:  (transitive) To cancel or terminate.
noun:  A surname.

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