also: こまおくり
frame-by-frame playback; frame advance
Used in video or animation contexts to describe advancing one frame at a time, either for analysis or editing.
Check the video frame by frame.
film drive (camera)
Refers to the mechanism in a camera that advances the film; a technical photography term.
The film advance on this camera broke.
Standard mixed kanji-katakana spelling; the most common written form.
Hiragana-katakana mixed variant; less common but still used.
Uses the rare kanji 齣 for コマ; mostly seen in older or technical contexts.
Compound of コマ (frame, from 齣) and 送り (sending, advancing). The katakana spelling コマ is standard for the 'frame' meaning in modern Japanese.