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English
Etymology
From French cinématographie. Possibly analysable as cinemato- + -graphy.
Pronunciation
Noun
cinematography (countable and uncountable, plural cinematographies)
- The art, process, or job of filming movies.
- Motion picture photography.
Usage notes
- Traditionally the term "cinematography" referred to working with motion picture film emulsion, but it is now largely synonymous with videography due to the use of digital technology in both fields.
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Translations
the discipline of making and reproducing motion pictures
- Arabic: تَصْوِير سِينَمَائِيّ m (taṣwīr sīnamāʔiyy)
- Armenian: կինեմատոգրաֆիա (hy) (kinematografia)
- Belarusian: кінемато́граф m (kinjematóhraf), кінэмато́граф m (kinematóhraf), кінематагра́фія (be) f (kinjematahráfija), кінамаста́цтва n (kinamastáctva)
- Bulgarian: кинематогра́фия f (kinematográfija)
- Burmese: ရုပ်ရှင်ပညာရပ် (ruphrangpa.nyarap)
- Catalan: cine (ca) m, cinematografia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電影攝影／电影摄影 (diànyǐng shèyǐng)
- Esperanto: kinarto
- Estonian: filmikunst
- Finnish: elokuvaus, elokuvataide (fi)
- French: cinématographie (fr) f
- Galician: cinematografía (gl) f
- Georgian: კინემატოგრაფია (ḳinemaṭograpia)
- German: Lichtbildkunst f, Kinematographie f
- Hindi: फ़िल्मांकन m (filmāṅkan)
- Hungarian: filmművészet (hu), filmkészítés (hu), cinematográfia
- Irish: cineamatagrafaíocht f
- Italian: cinematografia (it) f, filmologia (it) f
- Japanese: 撮影 (ja) (さつえい, satsuei)
- Kannada: ಛಾಯಾಗ್ರಹಣ (chāyāgrahaṇa)
- Khmer: សិល្បៈថតកុន (səlləpaʼ thɑɑt kon)
- Korean: 촬영(撮影) (ko) (chwaryeong), 시네마토그래피 (sinematogeuraepi)
- Malay: sinematografi (ms)
- Norman: cinnématographie f
- Persian: فیلمبرداری (fa) (film-bardâri)
- Polish: kinematografia (pl) f
- Portuguese: cinematografia f
- Romanian: cinematografie (ro) f
- Russian: кинемато́граф (ru) m (kinematógraf), кинематогра́фия (ru) f (kinematográfija), киноиску́сство (ru) n (kinoiskússtvo)
- Spanish: cinematografía (es) f
- Tajik: филмбардорӣ (filmbardorī)
- Thai: การถ่ายภาพยนตร์ (gaan tàai pâap-pá-yon)
- Turkish: sinematografi (tr)
- Ukrainian: кінемато́граф (uk) m (kinematóhraf), кінематогра́фія (uk) f (kinematohráfija)
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