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phonecam

phonecam noun: a camera built into a mobile phone.

Noun

phonecam (plural phonecams)

  1. A camera built into a mobile phone.
    • Sending a picture taken with a phonecam as MMS may be fun on occasion, but sending thousands or millions of pictures is not the work of a casual user.2003, Scott B. Guthery, Mary J. Cronin, Developing MMS Applications
    • Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.2004, Forbes, volume 173, numbers 4-9, page 156

Forms of phonecam

pluralphonecams

Origin of phonecam

From phone + cam.

Questions about phonecam

What does phonecam mean?
Phonecam means a camera built into a mobile phone.
What part of speech is phonecam?
Phonecam is a noun.
What is the plural of phonecam?
The plural of phonecam is phonecams.

Words near phonecam in the dictionary

  1. phonebooths
  2. phonebox
  3. phoneboxes
  4. phonecall
  5. phonecalls
  6. phonecam
  7. phonecams
  8. phonecard
  9. phonecards
  10. phonecase
  11. phonecases

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