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cel·lu·loid

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–noun

1.	a tough, highly flammable substance consisting essentially of cellulose nitrate and camphor, used in the manufacture of motion-picture and x-ray film and other products.

2.	motion-picture film.

–adjective

3.	Informal. of or involving motion pictures.

[Origin: former trademark; cellul(ose) + -oid

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n.

A colorless flammable material made from nitrocellulose and camphor and used to make photographic film.
1. Motion-picture film: "a strange, anachronistic sight: theater pieces transferred to celluloid" (David Ansen).
2. The cinema; motion pictures: "There are no heroes but in celluloid" (Charles Langbridge Morgan).

adj.

Made of or using a material made from nitrocellulose and camphor.
Of or portrayed on film or in motion pictures.
Artificial; synthetic: a novel with flat, celluloid characters.

[Originally a trademark.]

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celluloid

1871, trademark name (reg. U.S.), coined by U.S. inventor John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1900) from L. cellula dim. of cella (see cell) + -oid, from Gk. -o-eides "a form, shape" (comb. form). Abbreviated form cell "sheet of celluloid" is from 1933.

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celluloid
adjective
1.	artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"
noun
1.	highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics
2.	a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" [syn: film]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Celluloid

Cel"lu*loid`\ (s[e^]l"[-u]*loid), n. [Cellulose + -oid.] A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.

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