surveillance camera

English

A surveillance camera at London Heathrow airport

Noun

surveillance camera (plural surveillance cameras)

1. A mounted video camera used for the purpose of surveillance, as part of closed-circuit television.

   Synonyms: security camera, CCTV camera

   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     Coldly perusing his surveillance cameras one day, Mr. Burns spies nothing but grotesque misconduct: Instead of working, his employees engage in limbo contests, chess games, and, of course, cockfights.

   • 2019 May 21, Dylan Curran, “Facial recognition will soon be everywhere. Are we prepared?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     A reported 200m surveillance cameras around the country are doing everything from tracking shoppers in stores to preventing violent crime to catching jaywalkers.

Translations

CCTV camera

• Afrikaans: bewakingskamera
• Basque: bideozaintza kamera
• Bulgarian: ка́мера за видеонаблюде́ние f (kámera za videonabljudénie), ка́мера за наблюде́ние f (kámera za nabljudénie)
• Catalan: càmera de videovigilància f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 監視攝影機／监视摄影机 (jiānshì shèyǐngjī), 電眼／电眼 (zh) (diànyǎn), 天眼 (zh) (tiānyǎn), 電子眼／电子眼 (zh) (diànzǐyǎn)

• Danish: overvågningskamera (da) n
• Dutch: bewakingscamera (nl) f, beveiligingscamera (nl) f
• Estonian: turvakaamera
• Finnish: valvontakamera (fi)
• French: caméra de surveillance (fr) f, caméra de vidéosurveillance f
• Galician: cámara de videovixilancia f, cámara de vixilancia f, cámara de seguridade f
• German: Überwachungskamera (de) f
• Greek: κάμερα παρακολούθησης f (kámera parakoloúthisis), κάμερα βιντεοπαρακολούθησης f (kámera vinteoparakoloúthisis)
• Italian: telecamera di sorveglianza f
• Japanese: 監視カメラ (かんしカメラ, kanshi kamera)
• Korean: 감시 카메라 (gamsi kamera)
• Norman: caméra d'seurvillance m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overvåkningskamera n

• Portuguese: câmera de segurança f
• Romanian: cameră de supraveghere f
• Russian: ка́мера видеонаблюде́ния f (kámera videonabljudénija), ка́мера наблюде́ния f (kámera nabljudénija)
• Spanish: cámara de videovigilancia f, cámara de vigilancia f, cámara de seguridad f
• Swedish: övervakningskamera (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ка́мера спостере́ження f (kámera sposteréžennja)