polaroid

Meanings

Noun

  • A sheet of plastic embedded with microscopic crystals of herapathite or similarly acting material, so that light passing through it is polarised.
  • Spectacles made with lenses of polaroid, once used to view certain 3-D movies.
  • Polaroid sunglasses.
  • A camera that develops its own film.
  • A print from such a camera.

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Origin

  • Genericization of the trademark Polaroid, owned by Polaroid Corporation.

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