polaroid
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Polaroid¹
noun Polaroids
- Alternative letter-case form of polaroid The doctor took a Polaroid.
polaroid²
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A genericization of the trademark Polaroid, owned by Polaroid Corporation.
noun polaroids · Polaroid
- A sheet of plastic embedded with microscopic crystals of herapathite or similarly acting material, so that light passing through it is polarized. In the simplest form of this system, applicable to many microscopes, the substage polar consists only of semicircles of polaroid orientated to give respective planes of polarisation at right angles. Polaroids over the eyepieces are orientated so extinguish the inner halves of the exit pupils.
- Spectacles made with lenses of this material, once used to view certain 3-D movies, now used as sunglasses. She went to see BWANA DEVIL and, after donning the polaroids, saw correctly.
- A camera that develops its own film.
- A print from such a camera. Simons slides a pair of Polaroids across the table. They depict a couple of color-lit high schoolers standing in what appears to be an empty warehouse.
Similar: instant camera
verb polaroids · polaroiding · polaroided · Polaroid
- To photograph with a polaroid camera.
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Similar: instant camera
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noun print from such a camera
| Français | polaroïd |
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