webcam

noun

web·​cam ˈweb-ˌkam How to pronounce webcam (audio)
often capitalized
: a camera used in transmitting live images over the World Wide Web

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Surveys find that most managers assume—incorrectly, at times—that employees without their webcams on are disengaged from the conversation. Carmine Gallo, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025 Moving on to an upgrade that could genuinely change one little corner of using the 15-inch Air: the Center Stage webcam. PCMAG, 12 Mar. 2025 Two weeks later, Millan told another woman’s husband and children to leave the processing room and instructed her to show her breasts to the webcam multiple times. Sophia Pargas, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2025 The Tate bros had been accused of luring women to Romania and then forcing them to work as pornographic webcam performers. Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for webcam

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First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of webcam was in 1994

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“Webcam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/webcam. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.

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webcam

noun
web·​cam ˈweb-ˌkam How to pronounce webcam (audio)
often capitalized
: a camera used in transmitting live images over the World Wide Web

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