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camcorder
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noun
  1. a portable electronic device for recording images and audio on to a storage device, hence functioning as a camera and a recorder in a single unit
camera
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noun
  1. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
carrier
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noun
  1. A person or object that carry, carries someone or something else.
aircraft carrier
armored personnel carrier
  1. A company in the business of shipping freight.
  2. A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.
  3. A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
  4. A mobile network operator; wireless carrier
CB
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initialism (wikipedia, citizens' band radio)
  1. citizens' band
  2. Chemical and Biological
CCTV
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initialism
  1. Closed Circuit Television
    1. China Central Television
ch.
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abbreviation
  1. Church
  2. chapter
  3. (biblical) Book of Chronicles, also see: w:Wiktionary_Appendix:Abbreviations
challenger
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noun
  1. One who challenges.
One child stood as king of the hill, and tried to withstand the pushes and shoves of his challengers.
chassis
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noun (chassis)
  1. A base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a mounted gun moves backward and forward.
  2. The base frame of a motor vehicle.
  3. A frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment, such as on a computer.
closed-circuit television
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noun
  1. a system of television cameras, connected by cable to a control room, used for surveillance
contrast
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noun
  1. (uncountable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
  2. (uncountable) The degree of this difference.
The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.
  1. (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
Israel is a country of many contrasts.
  1. (uncountable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
verb
  1. (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
converter
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noun
  1. A person or thing that converts.
counterpoise
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noun
  1. A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.
  2. An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.
  3. The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.
verb
  1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
  2. To act against with equal power; to balance.
Crystal
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female).
  2. (slang) The drug Crystal Meth (methamphetamine hydrochloride)
crystal set
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noun (wikipedia, crystal radio receiver)
  1. An early radio receiver, having no electrical power supply except the radio waves themselves; it used a crystal of lead or cadmium sulphide and a wire (the Cat's whisker) touching the crystal's surface.
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