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dashcam

noun
/ˈdæʃˌkæm/US

Etymology

Blend of dash(board) + cam(era).

  1. derived from camera obscura — “dark chamber”
  2. derived from *kh₂em-✻
  3. derived from *kmárati✻
  4. derived from *kamarā-✻ — “something curved”
  5. derived from καμάρα — “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”
  6. learned borrowing from camera — “chamber or bedchamber”
  7. compounded as dashcam — “dashboard + camera”

Definitions

  1. A digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the…

    A digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle to record occurrences in the vicinity, such as traffic accidents that the vehicle has been involved in, to provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, insurance claims, etc.

    • Why not direct viewers to your website for entire, unedited interviews, an exclusive one-on-one with a local sports star or the whole five minutes of raw police dashcam from that cool chase you aired 20 seconds of?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dashcam. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA