Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.

    Zelluloid, Celluloid

    целлуло́идcellulóid

    целуло́їдcelulójid

    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. (attributive, countable, figuratively, often, uncountable)The genre of cinema; film.

  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)An item, such as a jacket, made from celluloid.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The word "celluloid" still is used to refer to movies even though the substance is no longer used for filming.

  2. Does Celluloid support plugins?

    ruПоддерживает ли Celluloid плагины? — ZegPhig · CC BY 2.0 FR

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
variety of thermoplastics:
Русский
By meaning 1
variety of thermoplastics:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
variety of thermoplastics:

Origin

Former trademark of Celluloid Manufacturing Company; from cellulose + -oid.

Former trademark of Celluloid Manufacturing Company; from cellulose + -oid.

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Forms

plural: celluloids
Singularcelluloid
Pluralcelluloids

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a medium that disseminates moving pictures:filmcinema

Word family

15 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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