webcam

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
webcam
    n 1: a digital camera designed to take digital photographs and
         transmit them over the internet
    
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
webcam

   <World-Wide Web, hardware, video> (World-Wide Web camera) Any
   video camera whose output is available for viewing via the
   {Internet} or an {intranet}.  Typically a webcam would be a
   slow-scan {CCD} video camera connected to a video capture card
   in a computer.  Images from the camera are captured
   periodically and made available on a web page.  In 1999 there
   are hundreds of webcams in operation around the world showing
   everything from bedrooms to traffic.

   [List?]

   (1999-01-11)
    

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