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camera

cam.era \'kam-(*-)r*\ \'kam-*-.re-, -.ri-\ n also cam.er.ae [LL, room - 
   more at CHAMBER] pl  1: CHAMBER; esp : a judge's chamber  2: the treasury 
   department of the papal curia  3a: CAMERA OBSCURA  3b: a lightproof box 
   fitted with a lens through the aperture of which the i mage of an object is 
   recorded on a light-sensitive material 3c: the part of a television 
   transmitting apparatus in which the image to b e televised is formed for 
   conversion into electrical impulses : PRIVATELY, SECRETLY  - in camera