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dashcam

Syllables: dash·camUK/ˈdæʃˌkæm/

dashcam noun: a digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle to record occurrences in the vicinity, such as traffic accidents that the vehicle has been involved in, to provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, insurance claims, etc.

Noun

dashcam (plural dashcams)

  1. A digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle to record occurrences in the vicinity, such as traffic accidents that the vehicle has been involved in, to provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, insurance claims, etc.
    • Why not direct viewers to your website for entire, unedited interviews, an exclusive one-on-one with a local sports star or the whole five minutes of raw police dashcam from that cool chase you aired 20 seconds of?2006, RTNDA Communicator, volume 60, Washington, D.C.: Radio-Television News Directors Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44
    • By dissolving from the last frame of the dashcam video clip into the same scene in animated form, the montage associated Murtha with the "good" officers in the other cruiser, embracing him in the group rather than singling him out as the renegade shooter who, to the unprepared viewer of the dashcam...2016, Neal Feigenson, “‘That’s What I See!’”, in Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 65
    Synonyms:
    car DVR, driving recorder, event data recorder

dashcam meaning in Arabic and Persian

dashcam in Arabic

digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle
دَاش كَام dāš kām

dashcam in Persian

digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle
داشکم

Examples of dashcam in a sentence

  • The evaluator is generally interested in the acquired video data as well as its integrity, but does not operate the dashcam himself.2017, Paul Wagner, Pascal Birnstill, Erik Krempel, Sebastian Bretthauer, Jürgen Beyerer, “Privacy Dashcam – Towards Lawful Use of Dashcams...
  • [W]e can connect the episode to the rise of "dashcams": small cameras mounted on the dashboards of cars to record the behavior of pedestrians and other motorists in case of accidents.2018, Pinelopi Troullinou, Mathieu d’Aquin, “Seeing the ‘Surveillant Face’ of Technology in Black Mirror: Using Futuristic Scenarios for an...

Synonyms of dashcam

Forms of dashcam

pluraldashcams
alternative formdash cam
alternative formdash camera
alternative formdash-cam

Origin of dashcam

Blend of dash(board) + cam(era).

Questions about dashcam

What does dashcam mean?
Dashcam means a digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle to record occurrences in the vicinity, such as traffic accidents that the vehicle has been involved in, to provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, insurance claims, etc.
What is dashcam in Arabic?
Dashcam in Arabic is دَاش كَام (dāš kām). See Dashcam meaning in Arabic.
How do you use dashcam in a sentence?
The evaluator is generally interested in the acquired video data as well as its integrity, but does not operate the dashcam himself.
What part of speech is dashcam?
Dashcam is a noun.
How do you pronounce dashcam?
Dashcam is pronounced /ˈdæʃˌkæm/ (UK).
What is the plural of dashcam?
The plural of dashcam is dashcams.

Words near dashcam in the dictionary

  1. Dashawn
  2. dashboard
  3. dashboarded
  4. dashboarding
  5. dashboards
  6. dashcam
  7. dashcams
  8. dashdotted
  9. Dashe
  10. Dashe's nectar bat
  11. Dashe's nectar bats

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