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CCD
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CCD,
abbreviation for charge-coupled device.

CCD
Telemedicine A semiconducting device–charge-coupled device in a solid-state camera or scanner which contains photosensitive (optical) cells; each pixel of an image requires a cell–the more CCDs in a scanner, the higher an image's resolution. See CCD camera.


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Essential in everything from guided missiles to advanced mobile phones, charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have been described as the digital equivalent of photographic film.
Crucial to the proposed mission, which Perlmutter calls SNAPSAT (Supernova/Acceleration Probe Satellite), are the size and sensitivity of its light detectors--large mosaics of solid-state sensors known as charge-coupled devices.
Camera phones comprised over 70% of all digital cameras that shipped in 2005, and the vast majority of these devices used Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) sensors, with the remainder using Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs), the high-tech market research firm says.
 
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