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cel⋅lu⋅loid

  [sel-yuh-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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cel·lu·loid   (sěl'yə-loid')   
n.  

  1. 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.  

  1. Made of or using a material made from nitrocellulose and camphor.

  2. Of or portrayed on film or in motion pictures.

  3. Artificial; synthetic: a novel with flat, celluloid characters.


[Originally a trademark.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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