camera lucida

1. 1.

   an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it

   Broaderoptical device

   Part ofmicroscope

Questions about camera lucida

What does camera lucida mean?

camera lucida means "an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it".

Is camera lucida a common word?

camera lucida is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.