Definition of "camera" []

• 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. (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. (noun)
• Camera obscura. (noun)
• A judge's private chamber. (noun)
• In camera In private. (idiom)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Legit. iPhone has a great camera (for a phone), but 5 MP is There's really no reason to go above about 2 MP on a cell phone camera*."
• "The 3 billionth photo, with the title camera-supplied name of DSC_2672_1, is a black-and-white shot of a door by Garrett Ryan Smith."
• "Since the camera is at an angle to the plate, the flash would not be reflected back to the camera."