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speed camera

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A roadside camera, triggered by a speeding vehicle, that takes a photograph of the offending vehicle and records its speed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Across languages

Translations

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Cantonese: 快相機 /快相机 — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Chinese Mandarin: 測速照相機 /测速照相机 — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Czech: radar — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Danish: fartkamera — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Danish: fotovogn — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Danish: stærekasse — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Danish: fartfælde — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Danish: ATK-stander — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Dutch: flitspaal — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Dutch: flitser — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Estonian: kiiruskaamera — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Finnish: nopeusvalvontakamera — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Finnish: nopeuskamera — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Finnish: peltipoliisi — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • French: radar automatique — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • French: radar — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Galician: radar de tráfico — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Galician: radar — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • German: Radarfalle — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • German: Blitzer — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • German: Radarsäule — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • German: Starenkasten — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Hungarian: traffipax — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Icelandic: löggæslumyndavél — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Italian: autovelox — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Japanese: オービス (Ōbisu) — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Polish: fotoradar — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Portuguese: radar — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Portuguese: radar de velocidade — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Portuguese: pardal — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Serbo-Croatian: фо̏торада̄р — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Serbo-Croatian: fȍtoradār — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Spanish: radar de tráfico — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Spanish: radar de velocidad — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Spanish: radar — camera to detect speeding vehicles
  • Swedish: fartkamera — camera to detect speeding vehicles