camera stand (kame rast and)

A support for a photographic camera. For indoor work a usual form is an adjustable table mounted on casters, and having various devices of racks and pinions, levers, hinges, screws, etc., to enable the operator to raise, lower, or tilt it with ease ase and rapidity, according to the nature of his work. In outdoor photography some form of tripod is commonly used as a camera-stand. came rate (kam'e-rāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. сат erated, ppr. came rating. [L. came ratus, pp. of came rare, arch over, camera, an arched roof. Cf. camber2 and chamber, v.] To build in the form of an arch or vault. [Rare.] camerated (kam'e-rā-ted), p. a. [Pp. of camer ate, v.] 1. In arch., arched; vaulted: as, a camerated roof. Weale.-2. In zoöl., divided by partitions into a series of chambers; chambered; hollowed out; fornicated; vaulted. There are no buccal teeth [in Trocheta sub virid is , Dutrochet], and the alimentary tube is only slightly camerated . Encyc. Brit ., XIV. 405.