camera – English noun declension

English noun forms of camera

Noun: camera
Singularcamera
Pluralcameras

Sample Sentences

  • The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement. [2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:]
  • Glance up while strolling through parts of downtown Hong Kong and, chances are, you’ll notice the glassy black lens of a surveillance camera trained on the city’s crowded streets.
  • And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities. [2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China”, in CNN:]
  • If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process. [2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds:]
  • I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before. [2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete:]

Nouns inflected like camera

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Etymology

1. 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.
2. (device): An ellipsis of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'καμάρα'.

Verbs referencing "camera"

Czech Nouns kamera, Hungarian Nouns kamera, French Nouns caméra, Irish Nouns ceamara, Catalan Nouns càmera, Portuguese Nouns câmera.