celluloid

Meanings

Plural: celluloids

Noun

• 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
• a medium that disseminates moving pictures
  • "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"
• Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.
• The genre of cinema; film.
• An item, such as a jacket, made from celluloid.

Adjective Satellite

• artificial as if portrayed in a film
  • "a novel with flat celluloid characters"

Synonyms

cinema, film, synthetic

Related Words

cell, cellophane, cellular, cellule, cellulite, cellulitis, cellulose, Galalith, viscoid, viscose, xylonite