photoapparat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Rare form of photoapparatus.
Example Sentences
- "The microphotographs were taken with Zeiss automatic photoapparat and mainly with HI 100/1.25 and 40/0.65 objectives."
- "« Take a picture with your photoapparat, and then look^([sic]) the beautifull^([sic]) exhibition, inside »"
- "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)."
- "[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."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fotoaparát, фотоаппара́т