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Polaroid
[poh-luh-roid]
a brand of material for producing polarized light from unpolarized light by dichroism, consisting typically of a stretched sheet of colorless plastic treated with an iodine solution so as to have long, thin, parallel chains of polymeric molecules containing conductive iodine atoms. It is used widely in optical and lighting devices to reduce glare.
Also called Polaroid Land Camera.Also called Polaroid Camera,.the first brand of instant camera, developed by Edwin H. Land and marketed since 1948.
Also called Polaroid print.a print made by such a camera.
Polaroid
/ ˈəʊəˌɔɪ /
noun
a type of plastic sheet that can polarize a transmitted beam of normal light because it is composed of long parallel molecules. It only transmits plane-polarized light if these molecules are parallel to the plane of polarization and, since reflected light is partly polarized, it is often used in sunglasses to eliminate glare
any of several types of camera yielding a finished print by means of a special developing and processing technique that occurs inside the camera and takes only a few seconds to complete
(plural) sunglasses with lenses made from Polaroid plastic
adjective
of, relating to, using, or used in a Polaroid Land Camera
Polaroid film
Example Sentences
One of her colleagues brought in a Polaroid camera.
A police search of the home discovered several Polaroid photos of the victim being tied up and tortured, as well as firearms and drugs in the luxury home, police say.
Hockney made a poster of a swimmer underwater, captured through 12 Polaroid photographs arranged in a grid.
He found some color inspiration in old Polaroid photographs: “The way the sun comes up in the Valley, it kind of washes out the buildings. All the paint fades.”
It’s like a Polaroid of a candid moment — wasn’t posed in any way.
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