"speed camera" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: speed cameras [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} speed camera (plural speed cameras)
  1. A roadside camera, triggered by a speeding vehicle, that takes a photograph of the offending vehicle and records its speed. Wikipedia link: speed camera Categories (topical): Law enforcement Translations (camera to detect speeding vehicles): 快相機 (Chinese Cantonese), 快相机 (alt: faai³ soeng³⁻² gei¹) (Chinese Cantonese), radar [inanimate, masculine] (Czech), fartkamera [neuter] (Danish), fotovogn (english: operated by a police officer in a parked van) [common-gender] (Danish), stærekasse (english: automatic camera in a permanent location) [common-gender] (Danish), fartfælde [colloquial, common-gender] (Danish), ATK-stander (english: automatic camera in a permanent location) [common-gender, formal] (Danish), flitspaal [masculine] (Dutch), flitser [masculine] (Dutch), kiiruskaamera (Estonian), nopeusvalvontakamera (Finnish), nopeuskamera (Finnish), peltipoliisi [colloquial] (Finnish), radar automatique [masculine] (French), radar [masculine] (French), radar de tráfico [masculine] (Galician), radar [masculine] (Galician), Radarfalle [feminine] (German), Blitzer [masculine] (German), Radarsäule [feminine] (German), Starenkasten [colloquial, masculine] (German), traffipax (Hungarian), autovelox [masculine] (Italian), fotoradar [masculine] (Polish), zdjęciomat [masculine] (Polish), radar [masculine] (Portuguese), radar de velocidade [feminine] (Portuguese), pardal [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), фо̏торада̄р [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), fȍtoradār [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), radar de tráfico [masculine] (Spanish), radar de velocidad [masculine] (Spanish), radar (Spanish), fartkamera [common-gender] (Swedish)

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}

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