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webcam, n. Computing.
Brit. |ˈwɛbkam|, U.S. |ˈwɛbˌkæm|
Forms: 19– web cam, 19– web-cam, 19– webcam [Also with capital initial(s).]
[‹ web n. + cam- (in camera n.).]
A video camera which is connected to a computer so that its output may be viewed on a network, esp. the Internet.
A proprietary name in the United States.
1995Arizona Republic (Nexis) 22 May e1 He's created the Wearable Wireless Webcam, a helmet-mounted camera that transmits to the Web images of whatever he's looking at. 1996Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 27 May d1 The Great Northern Brewing Co. in Whitefish, Mont., has just installed four Webcams to transmit live shots of the brewing operation. 1998Economist 13 June (Review section) 14/3 If the weather is good, a WebCam makes it even harder to resist a trip to the beach. 2000Daily Tel. 21 Apr. 18/3 The picture the children and I were gawping at that morning had been taken by a webcam at the ski resort of Meribel. |