on-camera
[ on-kam-er-uh, -kam-ruh, awn- ]
/ ˈɒnˈkæm ər ə, -ˈkæm rə, ˈɔn- /
adjective, adverb
within the range of a motion-picture or television camera; while being filmed or televised: on-camera blunders; The assassination happened on-camera.
Origin of on-camera
First recorded in 1960–65
Words nearby on-camera
on welfare,
on your life,
on, be,
on-again, off-again,
on-air,
on-camera,
on-glide,
on-limits,
on-message,
on-mike,
on-off
Definition for on camera (2 of 2)
camera
1
[ kam-er-uh, kam-ruh ]
/ ˈkæm ər ə, ˈkæm rə /
noun,
a device for capturing a photographic image or recording a video, using film or digital memory.
(in a television transmitting apparatus) the device in which the picture to be televised is formed before it is changed into electric impulses.
adjective
Printing.
camera-ready.
Origin of camera
1
1730–35; shortening of
camera obscura; 1840-45
for def 1; utimately < Latin
camera vaulted room, vault; see
camera2
British Dictionary definitions for on camera
camera
/ (ˈkæmərə, ˈkæmrə) /
noun
Word Origin for camera
C18: from Latin: vault, from Greek
kamara
Medical definitions for on camera
camera
[ kăm′ər-ə, kăm′rə ]
n. pl. cam•er•ae (-ə-rē)
A chamber or cavity, such as one of the chambers of the heart or eye.
Idioms and Phrases with on camera
on camera
Being filmed, as in When the talk-show host began, I wasn't sure if we were on camera. This usage dates from the first half of the 1900s, soon after the birth of motion-picture and television filming. The same is true of the antonym off camera, meaning “outside the view of a movie or TV camera,” as in Go ahead and scratch—we're off camera now.