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webcam
     n : a digital camera designed to take digital photographs and
         transmit them over the internet

资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

webcam
     
         (World-Wide Web camera) Any
        video camera whose output is available for viewing via the
        {Internet} or an {intranet}.  Typically a webcam would be a
        slow-scan {CCD} video camera connected to a video capture card
        in a computer.  Images from the camera are captured
        periodically and made available on a web page.  In 1999 there
        are hundreds of webcams in operation around the world showing
        everything from bedrooms to traffic.
     
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        (1999-01-11)