Polaroid

Quick meaning: Polaroid is a noun meaning (in the plural) Spectacles made with lenses of this material, once used to view certain 3-D movies, now used as sunglasses.

Meaning

(in the plural) Spectacles made with lenses of this material, once used to view certain 3-D movies, now used as sunglasses.

More Meanings

1. A camera that develops its own film.
2. A print from such a camera.
3. (ambitransitive, informal) To photograph with a polaroid camera.
4. A sheet of plastic embedded with microscopic crystals of herapathite or similarly acting material, so that light passing through it is polarized.

Example Sentences

She went to see BWANA DEVIL and, after donning the polaroids, saw correctly.

Polaroids are used as window screens to regulate the amount of light entering the room.

I could carry a spare pair of polaroids; however, Steve usually carries an extra pair which should be sufficient back-up for both of us.

If there is no sample in the cell, and the second polaroid is rotated until it is at right angles to the first, the observer will see no light.

Word Forms

• polaroids
• polaroiding
• polaroided

Synonyms for polaroid

Depending on context, synonyms include Pola.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include photograph, picture, pictures, pellicle, photopaper, chromatoplate.

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