Home › Words › U › undercrankundercrankundercrank means to shoot a scene while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will advance on playback. This results in speeding up the action in the final film.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, undercrank ranks #25,561 of 42,789 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom under- + crank; dating from a time when movie film was advanced in a camera by the turning of a crank.verbTo shoot a scene while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will advance on playback. This results in speeding up the action in the final film.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.undercranked 93% match — Of a scene shot while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will play on screen. This results in speeding up the action in the final film. vs undercrank →cranking 57% match — The act by which something is cranked. vs undercrank →underclock 53% match — To modify (a CPU) by the use of underclocking. vs undercrank →cinefilm 53% match — Any of various obsolete film formats, including 8 mm, 9.5 mm, 16 mm, and Super 8, formerly much used for making home movies to be viewed on a projector. vs undercrank →chronophotography 51% match — An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print. vs undercrank →downclock 50% match — To reduce the clock speed of. vs undercrank →flycrank 49% match — A type of mechanical crank. vs undercrank →crankman 49% match — A man employed to operate a crank. vs undercrank →