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Definition of Shutter

1. Noun. A mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure.

2. Verb. Close with shutters. "They want to shutter the doors"; "We shuttered the window to keep the house cool"

3. Noun. A hinged blind for a window.

Definition of Shutter

1. n. One who shuts or closes.

2. n. A mechanical device of various forms, attached to a camera for opening and closing to expose the plate.

Definition of Shutter

1. Noun. (usually plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light. ¹

2. Noun. (photography) The part of a camera that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in during taking a picture. ¹

3. Verb. To close the shutters. ¹

4. Verb. To close up a building for a prolonged period of inoccupancy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shutter

1. to provide with shutters (hinged window covers) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shutter

shute shuted shutes shuteye shuteyes shuting shutoff shutoffs shutout shutouts

shuts shuts off shuts out shuts up shuttable shutter (current term) shutter shades shutter speed shutterbug shutterbugs

shuttered shuttering shutterless shutters shuttest shutteth shutting shutting off shutting out shutting post

Literary usage of Shutter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Design and Construction of Dams: Including Masonry, Earth, Rock-fill by Edward Wegmann (1899)
"TH£NARD shutter-DAM. cylinder and arranged in such a manner that the ... In 1852, M. Chanoine overcame this difficulty by raising the axle of the shutter to ..."

2. The American Amateur Photographer (1891)
"THE CURTAIN shutter. Tn /he Editors of the American Amateur Photographer: I have read with cursory interest Mr. Blake's article in your February number on ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Georgen s " Central " shutter is very light and smooth in working, ... If each plate moves as fast as a drop shutter the combination gives double the speed, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The earliest form of shutter weir, known as a bear-trap, introduced in the United States in 1818, and subsequently erected across ..."

5. The American Amateur Photographer (1890)
"Supposing the shutter has been thrown over to the left as in dotted lines, Fig. ... Releasing the trigger throws the shutter at once to the right. ..."

6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"In order fully to decide the question, the shutter-telegraph at Nunhead, ... Kven in the six-shutter telegraph one shutter was occasionally mistaken for ..."

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