a video camera that feeds a live signal over the Internet that other people can view with a web browser. webcast:

A small, usually cheap video camera you can plug into your computer so that you can talk to people over the internet.

A video camera/computer setup that takes live images and sends them to a Web browser.

camera that allows users to share images on the web.

A video camera that feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, Ethernet, or Wi-Fi.

Web camera designed to upload digital images on to a web server, either via a PC connection or dedicated hardware.

Dictionary of Internet Terms Any video camera whose output is available for viewing via the Internet or an intranet.

is a camera connected to the web.

A video camera connected to a computer or computer network, enabling the computer to act as a videophone or videoconferencing station in real time (see this example). First developed in 1991, Webcams [..]

A camera connected to a computer that enables it to transmit images and videos to the Internet. For example, webcams can be set to transmit a live picture every few minutes from a location to a websit [..]

A webcam is an inexpensive video camera that connects to your computer. It's designed to send a stream of video images over the Net. If you shop around, you can buy a decent color camera for unde [..]

The term webcam is a combination of "Web" and "video camera." The purpose of a webcam is, not surprisingly, to broadcast video on the Web. Webcams are typically small cameras that [..]

A webcam is a low resolution video camera that can broadcast images to the web. Typically clients just repeatedly ask to view a jpg image that is a little different each time, at whatever rate they pl [..]

Small camera designed for the specific purpose of transmitting images over the Internet.

(n) a digital camera designed to take digital photographs and transmit them over the internet

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A video camera on a computer. The video it takes goes, via the computer to the computer network. E.g. Skype and Facetime use webcams to allow the people online to see each other in real time, as they [..]

A webcam is a small digital video camera directly or indirectly connected to a computer or a computer network. Webcams come with software that needs to be installed on the computer to help users recor [..]

Web camera designed to upload digital images on to a web server, either via a PC connection or dedicated hardware.

(computing,photography) A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a network, especially over the World Wide Web.