CELLULOID
\sˈɛljuːlˌɔ͡ɪd], \sˈɛljuːlˌɔɪd], \s_ˈɛ_l_j_uː_l_ˌɔɪ_d]\
Definitions of CELLULOID
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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a medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverange of sporting events"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.
By Oddity Software
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A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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An artificial substance, chiefly composed of cellulose or vegetable fibrine, and much used as a substitute for ivory, bone, coral, etc., in the manufacture of piano-keys, buttons, billiard-balls, shirt cuffs, etc. The cellulose is first reduced by acids to pyroxyline, camphor is then added, and the mixture is subjected to immense hydraulic pressure. The compound may then be moulded by heat and pressure to any desired shape, and it becomes hard, elastic, and capable of taking on a fine finish.
By Daniel Lyons
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A compound of cellulose, manufactured in substitution of ivory, bone, coral, &c. for billiard-balls, umbrella bandies, piano keys, combs, &c.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A substance prepared by mixing finely divided nitrocellulose with camphor, and other ingredients, of which zinc oxid is usually one, and molding the mixture into solid form by hydraulic pressure. It is very elastic and, as first prepared, highly inflammable. But it has been rendered much less inflammable by the addition of ammonium phosphate, sodium phosphate, and other ingredients.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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