camera obscura
/ɔb'skjjәrә/
📖 中文释义
- n. 暗箱
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- An apparatus in which the images of external objects,
- formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or
- other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a
- darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced.
- An apparatus in which the image of an external object
- or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or
- surface placed at the back of an extensible darkened box or chamber
- variously modified; -- commonly called simply the camera.