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(historical) A device that reduces the mechanical vibration of telegraph wires to prevent their making a humming sound.
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(dated, electronics) autodyne
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(historical) Of a fire-alarm telegraphy system, arranged so that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.
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(photography) A device that winds on the film in a camera after each exposure
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A camera set up to record images of a beach.
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Alternative form of bodycam. [(chiefly law enforcement) A body camera.]
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A video recording system worn on the body, typically used by law enforcement officers to record their interactions with the public, and gather video evidence at crime scenes.
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(chiefly law enforcement) A body camera.
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A hunt for radio transmitters; radiosport.
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Eye dialect spelling of camera. [A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.]
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(photography) An act or instance of an individual who responds by filming the videographer himself.
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A boy or man who publishes webcam photographs or videos of himself.
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A camera recorder: a portable electronic device for recording images and audio on to a storage device, hence functioning as a camera and a recorder in a single unit.
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A remotely activated camera, triggered by a sensor, used to capture wild animals on film when researchers are not present.
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Somebody who operates a camera.
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A woman who operates any kind of camera.
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Skill or technique involving the use of a camera, especially a video camera.
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One who uses a webcam; a webcammer.
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A pirated video created by illicitly recording a movie with a camcorder.
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A humorous television show that uses hidden candid cameras to make jokes to people.
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(colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
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(photography) A lightproof container for photographic film.
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(colloquial) A package of instruments, including a camera, that can be attached to an animal to study its behaviour in the wild.
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Alternative form of dashcam. [(automotive) A digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle to record occurrences in the vicinity, such as traffic accidents that the vehicle has been involved in, to provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, insurance claims, etc.]
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(automotive) A digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle to record occurrences in the vicinity, such as traffic accidents that the vehicle has been involved in, to provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, insurance claims, etc.
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An electronic device that records data over time or in relation to location.
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(Britain) A vehicle equipped with electronic instrumentation that can detect the oscillator of a domestic television, used by the licensing authority to check that a household with no TV licence does not have a television receiver
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A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
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An electronic, often battery-powered device for recording and storing photographs in digital format, especially on a flash card.
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A real-time image capture device used to display an object to an audience.
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(military, usually in the plural) A camera, part of an assembly of three or more cameras systematically disposed at fixed angles relative to each other so as to provide wide lateral coverage with overlapping images.
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(chiefly South Korean idol fandom) Amateur film footage of a celebrity taken unofficially by a fan.
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A webcam used to capture and publish images of fish.
adj
(dated) being vertically flat, having an image display surface of a CRT display screen that is vertically flat, but horizontally round
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A motion-sensitive camera placed on animal trails to photograph passing wildlife.
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(obsolete) A wax cylinder on which a message is recorded.
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(informal) A hand-held camcorder.
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Alternative form of handicam [(informal) A hand-held camcorder.]
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A helmet-mounted camera.
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(countable) An electronic device used to play recorded sound, especially music.
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A wireless webcam used specifically for surveillance as a security measure.
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(television) A device that replaces a fixed colour in the image with some other picture or background; chromakeyer.
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A recording of a television broadcast made by filming the screen of a monitor; a telerecording.
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(US) A camera that photographs couples kissing during a sports event and displays the image on a giant screen
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(sound engineering) A small, hands-free microphone which is worn attached to the body or clothes.
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A facility established to monitor radio and microwave signals and analyse their content to secure information and intelligence for use by the security and diplomatic community and others.
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Alternative form of microdisk [A very small disk (in any of many contexts)]
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Secretly installed miniature cameras used to capture voyeuristic images and videos in South Korea.
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a camera used to film a movie (film), usually intended for screening in a cinema.
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An electronic device with multiple sites where components can be plugged in.
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A video camera installed in a residence that allows the householder to see what a babysitter does when the householder is away.
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Alternative form of nanny cam [A video camera installed in a residence that allows the householder to see what a babysitter does when the householder is away.]
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A form of helical scan in which the tape is only wrapped around the head for 180 degrees. Two video heads are required, writing alternate fields.
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A camera built into a mobile phone.
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(dated) A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.
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A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking.
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A portable, battery-powered, self-contained video recording system.
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A premolded spiral groove in an optical disc, used to guide the laser beam when the disc is read or written.
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A small radio transmitter attached to an object (especially to an animal) in order to track its location
adj
Fitted with a radio collar
v
To perform a scan of this kind.
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The action of performing a radioscan.
adv
By means of, or in terms of, radiotelegraphy
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A device that tracks wild animals fitted with radiocollars
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The partial cancellation of a radio signal by itself.
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A video camera used to protect a building from intruders and to detect crime and other issues.
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(film, television) A style of filming using a handheld camera, giving an on-screen effect of shakiness.
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(film, television, sound engineering) A highly directional microphone for capturing only the sound directly in front of them, often used at a distance.
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Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires
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(chiefly science fiction) A camera mounted or flying in the sky, taking aerial pictures or video footage.
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A roadside camera, triggered by a speeding vehicle, that takes a photograph of the offending vehicle and records its speed.
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A camera, especially a webcam, used for covert surveillance.
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(film) A stabilizing camera mount for hand-held film or video shooting; a camera mounted thus.
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(electrical engineering) A part of an electricity or antenna feed.
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A mounted video camera used for the purpose of surveillance, as part of closed-circuit television.
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An outdoor camera that can be left unattended to take photographs or video footage at regular intervals, or whenever motion is detected, used for game surveillance by hunters.
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A device for recording video footage, often a portable one used by amateurs; also as a fixed installation for surveillance purposes.
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A device that takes a video signal and projects the corresponding image on a projection screen using a lens system.
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Surveillance of a public or private space carried out by means of a video camera system.
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Alternative form of video camera [A device for recording video footage, often a portable one used by amateurs; also as a fixed installation for surveillance purposes.]
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monitored by means of a video camera
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The tracking of moving objects using video camera
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A device in a television camera that forms an image composed of varying charges on a photoconductive surface
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A type of AGC or compressor for microphone amplification.
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(computing, photography) A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a computer network, originally the World Wide Web.
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A person who likes to tinker with electronics.
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