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fishcam en · NOUN

Etymology

From fish + cam.

Meanings

1. A webcam used to capture and publish images of fish.
   • We now have radio and TV broadcasts over the Web, fishcams, satellite weather maps, pictures of naked women, bulletin boards, database interfaces, Web search programs, and who knows what else? 1997, Kevin Marlowe, Jeff Rowe, Microsoft Office 97 Internet developer's guide, page 39:
   • The website has a fishcam, so you can look at your fish before you buy. 2007, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nick Fisher, The River Cottage Fish Book, page 590:
   • […] D. J. Riebesell […] chronicles his fishkeeping on the web and is an early adoptee of fishtank webcams. He has not one but two fishcams, one for a community tank and one for a tank of C. frontosa. 1999, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 47, numbers 5-8, page 156:

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