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polaroid

The correct spelling is polaroid.

How to pronounce polaroid

noun

Say it like: Pol-aro-yd

The correct spelling is polaroid. A sheet of plastic embedded with microscopic crystals of herapathite or similarly acting material, so that light passing through it is polarised.

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Meanings

noun

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

verb

  1. 1.To photograph with a polaroid camera.

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