often capitalized
: a camera used in transmitting live images over the World Wide Web
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Its new offices serve as a living lab, Russell says, essentially a space to experiment and track how people work in a hybrid setting, leveraging data from webcams and space management software to determine room usage like the number of people in a room and how often rooms are booked.
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Trey Williams, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
This is a 1080p webcam with IR support, and the video quality is sharp and clear, which is good news for mobile professionals.
—PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2024
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Trey Williams, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
This is a 1080p webcam with IR support, and the video quality is sharp and clear, which is good news for mobile professionals.
—PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2024
See all Example Sentences for webcam
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webcam
noun
web·cam
ˈweb-ˌkam 
often capitalized
: a camera used in transmitting live images over the World Wide Web
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