{
  "id": "camera.visual",
  "term": "camera",
  "sense": "visual",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "thing",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a device that records light as image",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "device.tool",
      "glass.material",
      "image.visual",
      "light.visual",
      "records.document"
    ],
    "interaction": "the device uses glass to make light into image by recording it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "image recording",
      "light preservation",
      "visual documentation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope captured the Pillars of Creation image using a 2.4-meter mirror and digital sensors.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Leica M3, released in 1954, recorded street scenes on 35mm film using a coupled rangefinder.",
      "domain": "photography"
    },
    {
      "text": "A traffic enforcement camera in London recorded a vehicle's license plate at 33 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.",
      "domain": "urban"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "device.tool",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a camera is a device"
    },
    {
      "id": "visual.perceptual",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "it enables visual perception"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "camera",
    "cameras"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts from definition: image.visual, light.visual, records.document. Definition remained correct; record was incomplete."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-camera.visual"
}