video camera

noun

: a camera that records video and usually audio
especially : camcorder

Examples of video camera in a Sentence

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His contribution to the Wende exhibition stands out as a sweeping portrait of a surveillance state and the paradoxically equivocal picture that arises when hundreds of millions of video cameras are monitoring everything that happens in public. Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024 The camera software is easy to use—just press the camera icon to take a picture, the video camera icon to record video, and the reverse camera icon to activate the 2MP selfie camera. PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024 Visual prostheses work by capturing visual information with a video camera, typically attached to glasses or a headset. IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2024 With his video camera in hand, Duddy was simply going to document the sessions. Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for video camera 

Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of video camera was in 1939

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“Video camera.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/video%20camera. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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video camera

noun
: a camera that records video and usually audio
especially : camcorder

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