(n.) A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
(2) Rapid injection of 2 m Ci TC 99m into a dorsal vein of the foot produced isotope phlebograms with a Dyna camera 2 C.
(3) Conventionally taken radiographs are captured by a video camera and processed by the IPS system (KONTRON).
(4) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
(5) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(6) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
(7) A television camera scans the spread through microscope optics; computer and special purpose electronics process the video signals to generate run length histograms.
(8) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
(9) The second area of improved SPECT technology is camera collimation and related imaging techniques.
(10) Scintiphotograms are obtained from both cameras throughout the course of both perfusion and ventilation portions of the study.
(11) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
(12) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
(13) Like Morton, Sevigny is an actor who holds nothing back from the camera.
(14) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
(15) Cameras have been set up by the zoo to track his movements and footpaths in the area closed by the county council.
(16) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
(17) The "Be Kind Rewind Protocol", as he calls it, involves setting up small studios with modest sets and facilities – props, back-projection footage, video cameras – so that groups of people can make their own amateur movies together according to anti-auteurist rules drawn up by Gondry.
(18) Eventually I was given a bag with my name on it, containing my jacket, wallet, and camera equipment.
(19) My first mobile phone arrived in 1999: a camera-less and brick-like early Motorola model.
(20) Plasma data and scintillation camera images obtained from patients receiving either 1, 50, or 100 mg of monoclonal antibody indicated dose-dependent (i.e., saturable) kinetics.
Twain
Definition:
(a. & n.) Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since his death on 21 April 1910, Twain's writings have reportedly inspired more commentary than those of any other American author and have been translated into at least 72 languages.
(2) Fortunately for us, perhaps more than any other writer Twain was his voice; the result, for all its frustrations, is a revelation.
(3) However tangential some of the early sections may be, there is also a great deal here to interest even the casual Twain reader.
(4) He begins his first-person narrative in words that echo the famous opening of Twain’s novel ( No 23 in this series ), a frank disavowal of “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”.
(5) Those who finish Huck Finn still doubting Twain's own racial attitudes should read Following the Equator or Pudd'nhead Wilson , in which Twain excoriates the "one-drop rule" (the American law decreeing that "one drop of negro blood" made a person black): "To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black out-voted the other fifteen parts and made her a 'negro'."
(6) The autobiography's many tender, grieving passages about Susy anticipate what Twain couldn't see coming: the death of another daughter, Jean, on Christmas Eve 1909.
(7) He served fleetingly as a Confederate soldier before deserting ("his career as a soldier was brief and inglorious," said the New York Times obituary; in the autobiography Twain includes a sympathetic account of deserting soldiers being shot, without revealing the reason for his sense of identification).
(8) To add to the intrigue, I think that weather will also play a huge part in this game - as Mark Twain said "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
(9) I like the exact word, and clarity of statement, and here and there a touch of good grammar for picturesqueness" – structure was always a problem for Twain.
(10) Like Mark Twain, he was no respecter of the professional qualms of historians, and the one-liners continued to flow.
(11) Until it does so, reports of the death of the Washington consensus, like those about Mark Twain, will have been much exaggerated.
(12) Mark Twain once said: "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit still."
(13) For many critics, the "non-fiction novel", as Capote was calling it, belonged to a tradition dating back to Daniel Defoe's The Storm (1704), in which Defoe used the voices of real people to tell his story, a tradition that boasted many exponents, among them Mark Twain, Dickens, Steinbeck, James Agee and Lillian Ross.
(14) "All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn … It's the best book we've had.
(15) Mark Twain, Melville, Bradbury, Steinbeck, Vonnegut; authors whose work is about something – that do the kind of writing I aspire to.” According to Smith, this year’s focus on comics “matters a great deal”.
(16) There is also a sofa based on the one that Darwin used while listening to his wife, Emma, reading extracts from popular novels, as well as a bookcase that includes a volume of Darwin’s favourite book, Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County .
(17) It became a residential hotel in 1905 and a celebrated retreat for musicians, painters and men of letters, including Mark Twain, William Burroughs and Tennessee Williams.
(18) Since 2001, Live Nation has organised Hyde Park events including Live 8 and concerts by high-profile acts such as Madonna, Bruce Springsteen , Bon Jovi and Shania Twain.
(19) To exclude American fiction and drama (no Twain, Steinbeck, or Miller, no Faulkner, no Fitzgerald, or TS Eliot) is – to deploy a literary critical term – plain bonkers.
(20) In the north, the choices are more literary (Mark Twain and Laura Ingalls Wilder both lived and wrote about life along the riverside).