thermal camera

English

Noun

thermal camera (plural thermal cameras)

1. A camera that is sensitive to infrared radiation (heat) instead of visible light as ordinary camera.
   • 2022 September 21, Brendan Rice, “Ready for inspection”, in RAIL, number 966, page 59, photo caption:

     A close-up of the thermal camera (top), with a conventional forward-facing camera beneath it. The thermal cameras are sensitive enough to identify any points of the rail that have temperatures significantly higher than adjacent areas.

Synonyms

• infrared camera
• thermographic camera
• thermal imaging camera

Translations

type of camera

• Belarusian: цеплаві́зар m (cjeplavízar)
• Catalan: càmera tèrmica f, càmera infraroja f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱成像儀／热成像仪 (rèchéngxiàngyí), 熱像儀／热像仪 (rèxiàngyí)

• Dutch: infraroodcamera (nl) f, warmtebeeldcamera f
• Estonian: termokaamera
• Finnish: lämpökamera (fi)
• French: caméra thermique (fr) f
• Galician: cámara térmica f, cámara infravermella f
• German: Wärmebildkamera (de) f, Infrarotkamera f, Wärmebildgerät (de) n, WBG n
• Italian: termocamera f
• Polish: termowizor m
• Portuguese: câmara térmica f (Portugal), câmera térmica f (Brazil)
• Russian: теплови́зор (ru) m (teplovízor)
• Spanish: cámara térmica f, cámara infrarroja f
• Swedish: värmekamera (sv) c
• Turkish: termal kamera
• Ukrainian: теплові́зор m (teplovízor)