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CLAPPERBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clapperboard mean? 

CLAPPERBOARD (noun)
  The noun CLAPPERBOARD has 1 sense:

1. photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged togetherplay

  Familiarity information: CLAPPERBOARD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLAPPERBOARD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("clapperboard" is a kind of...):

photographic equipment (equipment used by a photographer)


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