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nouna hinged blind for a windowpart of:
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nouna mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposuretype of:part of:
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"We shuttered the window to keep the house cool"verbclose with shutters
Definition that contains shutter
- closed with shutters closed
- shutter close with shutters
- shuttered provided with shutters or shutters as specified; often used in combination
- jalousie a shutter made of angled slats
- kinetoscope a device invented by Edison that gave an impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter; precursor of the modern motion picture
- deadlight a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather
- synchroflash a device used in photography to synchronize the peak of a flash with the opening of the camera shutter
- unshuttered not provided with shutters or having the shuttered open
- delayed action a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture
- kerr cell optical device consisting of a transparent cell with two electrodes between two polarizing media; passes light only if the two planes of polarization are parallel; used as a high-speed shutter or to modulate a laser beam