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camera

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  1. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
  2. The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
  3. A vaulted room.
  4. A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

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A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkæməɹə/
Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber. (device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.

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