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A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura. Bellows camera. See under Bellows. -- In camera (Law), in a judge's chamber, that is, privately; as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera. -- Panoramic…

An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope.…

r an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modifled; -- commonly called simply the camera.

See Comrade, [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.

The science of finance or public revenue.

To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

A vaulting or arching over. [R.]

Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. Bentham.

To arch over; to vault. Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone. Grew.

An arch or vault.

The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain.

A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.

Having, or consisting of, a single chamber; -- said of a legislative assembly. [R.] F. Lieber.

as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. -- Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic. -- A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two…

A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.

sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.

by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible.

(Photog.) An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera. Knight.

To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera. R. Hunt.