Usually means: Dark room with pinhole projection.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word camera obscura:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. camera obscura: Merriam-Webster
  2. camera obscura: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. camera obscura: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. camera obscura: Collins English Dictionary
  5. camera obscura: Vocabulary.com
  6. camera obscura: Wordnik
  7. camera obscura: Wiktionary
  8. camera obscura: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. camera obscura: Dictionary.com
  10. Camera Obscura (album), Camera Obscura (band), Camera Obscura (duo), Camera Obscura (journal), Camera Obscura (novel), Camera Obscura (record label), Camera obscura (disambiguation), Camera obscura: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Camera obscura: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. camera obscura: Rhymezone
  13. Camera obscura: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. camera obscura: FreeDictionary.org
  15. camera obscura: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. camera obscura: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. camera obscura: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. camera obscura: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. camera obscura: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. camera obscura: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Camera Obscura: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  2. camera obscura: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (camera obscura)

noun:  A darkened chamber in which the image of an outside object is projected and focused onto a surface.

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