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Polaroid definition

☆ Po·lar·oid (pō′lə ro̵id′)

  1. a transparent material containing embedded crystals capable of polarizing light: used in optics, photography, etc.

    1. Etymology: short for Polaroid Land Camera

      a camera that develops the film negative internally and produces a print within seconds after the process is initiated
    2. such a photograph

Etymology: polar + -oid

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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