Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small cube that contains four flashbulbs and that rotates automatically to the next unused bulb when a picture is taken with the camera to which it is attached.
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- noun photography A rotating
cube containing aflashbulb in each of four sides
Etymologies
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Examples
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She put the little flashcube into the top of the camera, dropped in the film and closed the back.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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Donations can be made in Cale or Kathleen Darling's name at local Global Credit Union branches, inside Yoke's grocery stores on Road 68 in Pasco and 27th Avenue in Kennewick, and in the flashcube building on Clearwater Avenue in Kennewick.
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These include the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine
Nano Tech Wire 2009
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It’s this way, Man: drop in the film, get yourself a flashcube.
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Over the years, the R&D 100 Awards have recognized winning products with such household names as Polacolor film (1963), the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980), the printer
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These include the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980), the printer
PR.com Press Releases R&D magazine 2009
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