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photoapparat en · NOUN

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Photoapparat and an alteration of Czech and Slovak fotoaparát, Russian фотоаппара́т (fotoapparát), etc. with photo-. By surface analysis, photo- + apparat (“apparatus, instrument, device”).

Meanings

1. (form-of, rare) Rare form of photoapparatus.
   form of photoapparatus
   • « Take a picture with your photoapparat, and then look^([sic]) the beautifull^([sic]) exhibition, inside » 2000, Gil Jouanard, quoting Drahoslav M., Mémoire de l’instant : nouvelles ordinaires de divers endroits (overall work in French), [Lagrasse, Occitanie]: Verdie, →ISBN, page 79:
   • [W]hen he [Michał Goleniewski] added in his own ‘books, records, clothes, uniforms, rifles, pistols, gold watches, photoapparats [sic] valuable collections etc. and savings accounts’ left behind in Warsaw, as well as his UB retirement and health benefits, the total exceeded $440,000 – more than $3.7 million today. 2021, Tim Tate, “HR 5507”, in The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN:
   • The microphotographs were taken with Zeiss automatic photoapparat and mainly with HI 100/1.25 and 40/0.65 objectives. 1992, A. Vojtkó, “The spore morphology of Hepaticae species”, in Acta Biologica, Szeged: Facultas Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Szegediensis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:
   • Evidently, the photomicrographs in [Walther] Vogt’s article are not photograms, that is, photographic images of three-dimensional objects (and photosensitive material without involving any optical system such as a photoapparat). 2012, Sabine Brauckmann, “On Fate and Specification: Images and Models of Developmental Biology”, in Nancy Anderson, Michael R[obert] Dietrich, editors, The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture), Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press, →ISBN, page 218:

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