often capitalized
: a camera used in transmitting live images over the World Wide Web
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Professionals will appreciate features like a backlit keyboard, fingerprint reader, and 1080p webcam with privacy shutter, as well as long battery life.
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Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 24 Mar. 2025
In the early afternoon, a webcam's livestream showed vigorous, bright-red fountains but later only showed billowing smoke.
—CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
Users also have the option of using Dante devices for adding extension mics and even a second external USB webcam so the TC Bar S could be used in a slightly larger space.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Parents were asked to set up the experiment in a quiet room with minimal potential distractions, outfitted with a webcam to monitor the experiment.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2025
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Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 24 Mar. 2025
In the early afternoon, a webcam's livestream showed vigorous, bright-red fountains but later only showed billowing smoke.
—CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
Users also have the option of using Dante devices for adding extension mics and even a second external USB webcam so the TC Bar S could be used in a slightly larger space.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Parents were asked to set up the experiment in a quiet room with minimal potential distractions, outfitted with a webcam to monitor the experiment.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2025
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“Webcam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/webcam. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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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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