ELECTRON CAMERA Definition & Meaning

electron camera

noun

Electronics.

an apparatus that converts an optical image into a corresponding electric current by electronic means without the intervention of mechanical scanning.

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Origin of electron camera¹

First recorded in 1935–40

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Nevertheless, Lindenberg hopes the electron camera will go on to provide a ‘new, fundamental understanding of how these materials work’.

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The official pilot used an electron camera, giving a complete and overlapping series of pictures of the shore five miles away with incredible magnification and detail.

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And only an electron camera could have used enough magnification to show one man laughing, as if at something the other had said.

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