celluloid
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yəˌlɔɪd 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.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a flammable thermoplastic material consisting of cellulose nitrate mixed with a plasticizer, usually camphor: used in sheets, rods, and tubes for making a wide range of articles |
| 2. | a. a cellulose derivative used for coating film |
| b. one of the transparent sheets on which the constituent drawings of an animated film are prepared | |
| c. a transparent sheet used as an overlay in artwork | |
| d. cinema film | |
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Celluloid
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Word Origin & History
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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Example sentences
It's certainly violent: blood practically drips off the celluloid frames.
Finally it occurred to him that a new substance on the market called celluloid might answer.
Any celluloid still out there is in risk of deteriorating.
As a character she may be more patchwork fakery, made up of bits of celluloid, than a dimensional character.
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