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noun
- A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
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| carbon paper |
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noun
- A sheet of paper with one of the faces impregnated with carbon, used to make carbon copy, carbon copies.
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| carbon process |
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noun
- the process of making carbon prints
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| cartridge |
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noun
- (context, firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
- (A general sense that arose by extension from the sense of firearm cartridge) A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
- (computing) A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
- (computing) Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.
- (obsolete) A small paper package, e.g. in an old book about making printer's type: After all the type has been cast: "The Boy will paper up each sort in a by itself".
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| cassette |
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noun
- A small flat case containing magnetic tape on two reels, used to record and play back audio and video material.
- Any similar small cartridge, such as for a computer disk.
- (photography) A lightproof container for photographic film.
- (genetics) A modular DNA sequence encoding one or more genes for a single biochemical function.
- (bicycle part) A set of sprockets mounted onto a splined shaft on the freehub.
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Image:CassetteTypes1.jpg, audio cassettes
Image:Famicom ROM cassette.jpg, ROM cassette
Image:Tessina Film.jpg, film cassette
Image:SRAM cassette.jpg, bicycle cassette
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| chalky |
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adjective
- Consisting of or containing chalk.
- Resembling chalk in any way.
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| chrome |
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noun - Another name for chromium when used to plate other metals.
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| closeup |
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noun
- (context, Filmology) A video or film recording made with the camera positioned close to an actor, often so that only the head or face is visible.
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| contrast |
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noun
- (uncountable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
- (uncountable) The degree of this difference.
- The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.
- (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
- Israel is a country of many contrasts.
- (uncountable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
verb
- (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
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| converter |
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noun
- A person or thing that converts.
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| copier |
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noun
- A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.
- A person who copies documents.
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| coverage |
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noun
- The amount that something or someone is covered.
- Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough for the help-desk phones.
- Before laying sod on that clay, the ground needs two inches of with topsoil.
- The enemy fire is increasing - can we get some immediate from those bunkers?
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| crop |
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noun
- A plant, especially a cereal, grown for food.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occuring at the same time.
- a crop of idea
- The lashing end of a whip
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- A rocky outcrop.
- The act of
- Verb, cropping.
- A short haircut.
- (archaic, or, dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.
- 1892: The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its . " Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (Norton 2005 p.221)
- (architecture) the foliate part of a finial.
verb (crop, p, ed)
- (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photography or image in order to frame the subject better.
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| cyanine |
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noun
- A synthetic blue dye used in photography etc.
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