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noun
- a portable electronic device for recording images and audio on to a storage device, hence functioning as a camera and a recorder in a single unit
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| camera |
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noun
- A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
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| carrier |
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noun
- A person or object that carry, carries someone or something else.
- aircraft carrier
- armored personnel carrier
- A company in the business of shipping freight.
- A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.
- A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
- A mobile network operator; wireless carrier
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| CB |
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initialism (wikipedia, citizens' band radio)
- citizens' band
- Chemical and Biological
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| CCTV |
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initialism - Closed Circuit Television
- China Central Television
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| ch. |
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abbreviation
- Church
- chapter
- (biblical) Book of Chronicles, also see: w:Wiktionary_Appendix:Abbreviations
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| challenger |
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noun
- One who challenges.
- One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.
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| chassis |
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noun (chassis)
- A base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a mounted gun moves backward and forward.
- The base frame of a motor vehicle.
- A frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment, such as on a computer.
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| closed-circuit television |
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noun
- a system of television cameras, connected by cable to a control room, used for surveillance
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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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| counterpoise |
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noun - A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.
- An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.
- The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.
verb - To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
- To act against with equal power; to balance.
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| Crystal |
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proper noun
- (given name, female).
- (slang) The drug Crystal Meth (methamphetamine hydrochloride)
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| crystal set |
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noun (wikipedia, crystal radio receiver)
- An early radio receiver, having no electrical power supply except the radio waves themselves; it used a crystal of lead or cadmium sulphide and a wire (the Cat's whisker) touching the crystal's surface.
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