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DELAYED ACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does delayed action mean? 

DELAYED ACTION (noun)
  The noun DELAYED ACTION has 1 sense:

1. a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the pictureplay

  Familiarity information: DELAYED ACTION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DELAYED ACTION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("delayed action" is a kind of...):

mechanism (device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function)

Holonyms ("delayed action" is a part of...):

camera; photographic camera (equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other))


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