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photoapparat

photoapparat is the rare form of photoapparatus.

Meaning of photoapparatus

Noun

photoapparatus (plural photoapparatuses)

  1. (non-native speakers' English) Synonym of photo camera.
    • The glass industry uses oxides of rare-earth metals to finish glass; they are used to produce special types of colorless and stained glass (for example, for optical photoapparatus). Color television is a prospective new field for the use of europium and yttrium compounds.1966, Tsvetnye Metally, volume 7, number 2, page 3
    Synonyms:
    photo camera

Forms of photoapparat

pluralphotoapparats

Origin of photoapparat

Unadapted borrowing from German Photoapparat and an alteration of Czech and Slovak fotoaparát, Russian фотоаппара́т (fotoapparát), etc. with photo-. By surface analysis, photo- + apparat (“apparatus, instrument, device”).

Questions about photoapparat

What is photoapparat the rare form of?
Photoapparat is the rare form of photoapparatus.

Words near photoapparat in the dictionary

  1. photoantennas
  2. photoantigen
  3. photoantigens
  4. photoantimicrobial
  5. photoantimicrobials
  6. photoapparat
  7. photoapparats
  8. photoapparatus
  9. photoapparatuses
  10. photoaquation
  11. photoaquations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photoapparat (page history and authors); photoapparatus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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