a short length of flexible cable, used to operate the shutter of a camera without shaking it
cable release in American English
noun
Photography
a device consisting of a flexible wire that is pressed at one end to trip a shutter mechanism on a camera
Word origin
[1955–60]This word is first recorded in the period 1955–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cassette, new wave, rite of passage, rollout, software
Examples of 'cable release' in a sentence
cable release
A few monkeys next to me started playing with the cable release, pressing the shutter and taking pictures.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Penn evidently exempted himself from the formal dress code: he is half-concealed in a foxhole, but easily identifiable (holding the bulbous cable release).