camer- +

1. An apparatus for taking photographs, generally consisting of a lightproof enclosure having an aperture with a shuttered lens through which the image of an object is focused and recorded on a photosensitive film or plate.
2. Any of several electronic scanning and imaging devices; such as, a gamma camera, that enables radiation patterns to be visualized on a cathode-ray tube, computer printout, photographic film, etc.
3. The part of a television transmitting apparatus that receives the primary image on a light-sensitive cathode-ray tube and transforms it into electrical impulses.
4. Any enclosed space; cavity, or chamber.
5. A judge's private chamber.
6. Etymology: in Modern Latin camera obscura, "dark chamber" (a black box with a lens that could project images of external objects), from Latin camera, "vaulted room"; from Greek kamara, "vaulted chamber".

Contrasted with camera lucida, Latin, "light chamber"; which uses prisms to produce an image on paper beneath the instrument, which can be traced.

Shortened to "camera" when modern photography began, in about 1840; which was extended to television filming devices in about 1928.

The anterior portion of the anterior segment of the eyeball, situated between the cornea anteriorly and the lens and iris posteriorly.

It contains aqueous humor that drains through the iridocorneal angle at its periphery and communicates with the posterior chamber through the pupil.

An optical device that uses prisms, mirrors, and sometimes a microscope to project a virtual image on a plane so it can be traced.

In a chamber.

Current meaning is "in private" which is applied especially to a hearing held by a judge in her/his chambers, or in an office, with the public and the press excluded. A judge's chambers [singular] is his/her private office for discussing cases or legal matters not taken up in open court.

The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber; such as, to the pope's domain.

A reference to a legislature composed of three chambers.

Having or consisting of a single legislative chamber.