CAMERAとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room; from Latin camera (“chamber または bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage または boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”). Doublet of chamber.

発音

• (Received 発音, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæməɹə/, /ˈkæmɹə/
• ハイフネーション: ca‧me‧ra, cam‧era

名詞

camera (複数形 cameras)

1. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
   • 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:

     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.

2. (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
   • 2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds:

     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.

   • 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete

     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.

3. A vaulted room.
4. The judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

派生語

関連する語

• camerated

派生した語

Further reading

• camera on Wikipedia.
• camera in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• camera in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
• camera at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• Macrae

Latin

語源 1

From Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage または boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

別の表記

• camara (classical)
• cambra (medieval)

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈka.mɛ.ra]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkaː.mɛ.ra]

名詞

camera f (genitive camerae); first declension

1. A chamber in its various senses, including:
   1. A room, especially a vaulted room, a vault.
   2. A deliberative body.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• camella
• camera obscura (New Latin)
  • → Dutch: camera
    • Afrikaans: kamera
    • → Indonesian: kamera
  • → English: camera (see there for further descendants)
  • → German: Kamera
  • → Swedish: kamera

派生した語

See also descendants at camara.

Borrowings

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