CAMERA OBSCURA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does camera obscura mean? 

• CAMERA OBSCURA (noun)
  The noun CAMERA OBSCURA has 1 sense:

1. a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface

  Familiarity information: CAMERA OBSCURA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMERA OBSCURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("camera obscura" is a kind of...):

chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)

 Context examples 

His mind seemed to turn, on the instant, into a vast camera obscura, and he saw arrayed around his consciousness endless pictures from his life, of stoke-holes and forecastles, camps and beaches, jails and boozing-kens, fever-hospitals and slum streets, wherein the thread of association was the fashion in which he had been addressed in those various situations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)