video camera

noun

|Updated on: 17 Aug 2018

Definition of video camera

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

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Recent Examples of video camera from the Web

His audience is a small video camera positioned directly in front of him.

— jon tayler, SI.com, "Million Dollar Moves: After His Unlikely Baseball Career Flamed Out, Rinku Singh's Next Stop Is WWE," 3 July 2018
Harris County Commissioners Court last week approved a memorandum of understanding between the sheriff’s office and Ring, a company that sells doorbells with video cameras.

— zach despart, Houston Chronicle, "Harris County sheriff puts partnership with video doorbell company on hold," 19 June 2018
When Aiello attends sessions of Parliament, which are expected to resume soon, video cameras will be prohibited from zooming in on her.

— anna momigliano, Washington Post, "This Italian mob informant was elected to Parliament, but voters have never seen her face," 5 June 2018
When Aiello attends sessions of Parliament, which are expected to resume soon, video cameras will be prohibited from zooming in on her.

— anna momigliano, chicagotribune.com, "A mob informant was elected to Italy's Parliament, but voters have never seen her face," 5 June 2018
The first modern-style drones began to appear in the 1980s, as Israeli engineers developed models equipped with video cameras to monitor persons of interest for hours at a time.

— olivia b. waxman, Time, "Aerial Photography Has Changed the World. Drones Are Just the Latest Example," 30 May 2018
Authorities used robots with video cameras to scope out drainage pipes in the park, the Little Rock Police Department said.

— nicole darrah, Fox News, "Skeletal remains confirmed to be Arkansas woman, 18, who vanished in 2015," 23 May 2018
Not possible now, when 19-year-olds walk the streets with video cameras in their pockets.

— New York Times, "New York Has Given Away the Keys to More Than a Prius," 15 May 2018
Researchers have, for several years, used video cameras and computers to analyse people’s gaits, and are now quite good at it.

— The Economist, "The way people walk can be used for ID and health checks," 12 July 2018

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