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Polaroid

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Noun

1. polaroid

(trade mark) a plastic film that can polarize a beam of light; often used in sunglasses to eliminate glare

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Polaroid

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noun
1. trademark
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
2.  Polaroid Land Camera
3. (plural)
sunglasses with lenses made from Polaroid plastic
adjective
4. 
of, relating to, using, or used in a Polaroid Land Camera
Polaroid film

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Polaroid

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trademark
1. 
a transparent material containing embedded crystals capable of polarizing light: used in optics, photography, etc.
2. 
a. 
a camera that develops the film negative internally and produces a print within seconds after the process is initiated
b. 
such a photograph

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Polaroid

see synonyms of polaroid
1. A trademark for a specially treated, transparent plastic capable of polarizing light passing through it, used in glare-reducing optical devices.
2. A trademark for a camera and film that produce instant photographs.

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