webcam

Or Web·cam

[web-kam]

noun

1. a digital camera whose images are transmitted, often in real time, over the World Wide Web.

webcam

/ ˈwɛbˌkæm /

noun

1. a camera that transmits still or moving images over the internet

Word History and Origins

Origin of webcam¹

First recorded in 1990–95; (World Wide) Web + cam(era)

Example Sentences

Thousands of adoring fans had watched them hatch on a 24-hour webcam that monitors the family and now they were growing up — fast.

From Los Angeles Times

Sofi, a mother-of-two from Medellín, had been a waitress in a nightclub but, fed up with being insulted by customers, moved into webcam modelling.

From BBC

A 14-week-old bald eagle whose life at Big Bear Lake has played out on a webcam flew for the first time Tuesday morning.

From Los Angeles Times

Hearing that a friend of a friend is getting serious with a nude webcam model, she says coolly: “He’s a 5-foot-7 depressed novelist who’s never been published — he couldn’t do better.”

From Los Angeles Times

Escola went from recording videos on a webcam to accepting the Tony for best actor; from imitating a legend to becoming one in their own right.

From Salon