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video camera

noun

: a camera that records video and usually audio
especially : camcorder

Examples of video camera in a Sentence

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Chen’s role will be to sit in front of a video camera and make facial expressions at the prompt of a director. — Ling Wei, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026 There was no video camera coverage of the location of the shooting in 2019 on Garden Street in Stamford. — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026 That strategy succeeded after a Florida court found that law enforcement officials had impermissibly used secret video cameras to record continuously for five days. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Aug. 2026 How a colonoscopy actually works A doctor guides a long, flexible tube with a tiny video camera through the colon. — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for video camera

Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of video camera was in 1939

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“Video camera.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/video%20camera. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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video camera

noun
: a camera that records video and usually audio
especially : camcorder

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