Word Meanings - CAMERAOBSCURA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 or an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modifled; -- commonly called simply the camera.

• Placement
  The act of placing, or the state of being placed.
• Placidly
  In a placid manner.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Placoidian
  One of the placoids.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Sensitizer
  An agent that sensitizes.
• Camerate
  To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
• PLACEKICK
  To make a place kick; to make (a goal) by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• Extensibleness
  Extensibility.
• Object
  To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
• Placableness
  The quality of being placable.
• Placentae
  of Placenta
• Placidness
  The quality or state of being placid.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Placophora
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Simply
  In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.
• Cameration
  A vaulting or arching over.
• PLACEPROUD
  Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.
• External
  Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body.

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