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Optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest
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viewfinder
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n. A device on a camera that shows what will appear in the field of view of the lens; it helps the user target a subject, zoom and focus the image
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Viewfinder by Raymond Carver is one of the short stories in the What We Talk About When We Talk About Love compilation. It is told in the first person perspective of a man who is visited by an elderly man with hook hands. The man comes to his house to try ...
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n. optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest [syn: finder , view finder ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Harriet hardly dared blink as she watched her through the viewfinder , terrified she might miss the moment she was waiting for. ▪ Jill looks straight into the viewfinder . ▪ My tiredness had gone; all that mattered was what was ...
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Jill looked through the viewfinder and switched to a twilight setting, then set the autofocus on infinity and zoomed out for a wide shot.
As specifically configured for UpLink International, the sixty TRAP T-2s situated around the Cosmodrome consisted of a mix of tripod-mounted VVRS M16 assault rifles and Heckler Koch MSG semiautomatic shotguns linked via microwave video, fiber-optic umbilical cable, and precision target-acquisition-and-firing software to man-portable control stations with handheld viewfinders and triggering units.
Squinting through the viewfinder, she watched videotape shots: as usual, Minh had captured the essentials of everything.
He was carrying his little box camera, and he held it in front of his stomach now and squinted into the viewfinder.
She said she had a co-starring role, and she showed around a viewfinder.
It was one of the new breed of camcorders where instead of peering through a viewfinder you gaze at a flat-panel color screen about the size of a playing card, which televises live coverage of whatever the camcorder is seeing.
He gazed through the eyepieces of the comparison microscope, adjusted the focus and then moved the stages so the samples were next to each other in the split-screen viewfinder.
He gazed through the eyepieces of the comparison microscope, adjusted the focus and then moved the stages so the samples were next to each other in the splitscreen viewfinder.
Unlike with the attack on the helicopter, this time the Stinger launcher crewman couldn't see the fighter itself through the view finder, so he had replaced the regular optical viewfinder on his Stinger launcher with a two-inch-square LCD screen, which showed an electronic image of the Stinger viewfinder and the Iranian fighter, along with target flight data and missile status.
There was an optical orientation viewfinder set up on a small porthole to one side of the panel.
She guessed he meant it was time to get busy and folded out the periscopic apparatus of the viewfinder so that she could look through it right in front of her, then with her other hand found the shutter button.
Mary Delden was crouched by a litter of rib cages and, still with her eyes to the viewfinder of her camera, she said to her father, 'To be on the safe side I'll hand you some of my films.
He leaned against the railing next to a row of chit-operated viewfinders trained in the general direction of the New York Dike, looking like any of the other single men and women scattered across the observation deck.
Now lots of girls have got chintzy little viewfinders that movie guys give them, but this was an expensive one, on a chain, with a little velvet case.
Activated, the unit provided a heads-up display that allowed her to place buildings and infrastructure wherever she wished, creating a virtual community anywhere the unit's viewfinder was aimed.