chamber vs camera obscura

camera obscura vs chamber

chamber and camera obscura both are nouns.

chamber is a verb but camera obscura is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chamber	Yes	No	Yes	No
camera obscura	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, camera obscura is a hyponym of chamber; that is, camera obscura is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than chamber:

chamber: a natural or artificial enclosed space
camera obscura: a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface

Other hyponyms of chamber include air lock, airlock, air-raid shelter, bomb shelter, bombproof, burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture, caisson, cofferdam, pneumatic caisson, core, cylinder, piston chamber, firing chamber, gun chamber, furnace, hyperbaric chamber, particle detector, cavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonator, steam chest, fireroom, stokehold, stokehole, packing box, stuffing box, tokamak, vacuum chamber.

chamber (noun)	camera obscura (noun)
a natural or artificial enclosed space	a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface
a room used primarily for sleeping
a room where a judge transacts business
an enclosed volume in the body
a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly

chamber (verb)	camera obscura (verb)
place in a chamber

Difference between chamber and camera obscura

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