digital camera

noun

: a camera that records images as digital data instead of on film

Examples of digital camera in a Sentence

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Kanwar quickly surfaced — but without his digital camera, containing hundreds of photos of the couple's wedding. Erin Clack, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025 Danke attached a microscope lens at 20 times magnification to a Sony digital camera to zoom in on the insect’s compound eye, at the left of the photo. Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025 The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is the largest digital camera ever built and will be used to capture detailed images of the southern hemisphere sky over a decade. Victoria Corless, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2025 Kodak invented the digital camera but clung to film. Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for digital camera

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First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of digital camera was in 1976

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“Digital camera.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/digital%20camera. Accessed 9 May. 2025.

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digital camera

noun
: a camera that records images as digital data instead of on film
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