photoapparat

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A form of photoapparatus — Synonym of photo camera.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounphotoapparat (plural photoapparats)

plural photoapparats

  1. rareRare form of photoapparatus.

    « Take a picture with your photoapparat, and then look^([sic]) the beautifull^([sic]) exhibition, inside »

    2000, Gil Jouanard, quoting Drahoslav M., Mémoire de l’instant : nouvelles ordinaires de divers endroits (overall work in French), [Lagrasse, Occitanie]: Verdie, →ISBN, page 79
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    The microphotographs were taken with Zeiss automatic photoapparat and mainly with HI 100/1.25 and 40/0.65 objectives.

    1992, A. Vojtkó, “The spore morphology of Hepaticae species”, in Acta Biologica, Szeged: Facultas Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Szegediensis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60

    Evidently, the photomicrographs in [Walther] Vogt’s article are not photograms, that is, photographic images of three-dimensional objects (and photosensitive material without involving any optical system such as a photoapparat).

    2012, Sabine Brauckmann, “On Fate and Specification: Images and Models of Developmental Biology”, in Nancy Anderson, Michael R[obert] Dietrich, editors, The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture), Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press, →ISBN, page 218

    [W]hen he [Michał Goleniewski] added in his own ‘books, records, clothes, uniforms, rifles, pistols, gold watches, photoapparats [sic] valuable collections etc. and savings accounts’ left behind in Warsaw, as well as his UB retirement and health benefits, the total exceeded $440,000 – more than $3.7 million today.

    2021, Tim Tate, “HR 5507”, in The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Russianфотоаппара́т
  2. calque of Czech and Slovakfotoaparát
  3. GermanPhotoapparat
  4. Englishphotoapparat

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”).

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APA

photoapparat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/photoapparat

MLA

“photoapparat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/photoapparat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “photoapparat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/photoapparat.

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