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polaroid

noun 4
verb 1
forms 4

noun4

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A print from such a camera.
- Simons slides a pair of Polaroids across the table. They depict a couple of color-lit high schoolers standing in what appears to be an empty warehouse. — 1989
A camera that develops its own film.
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[in the plural] Spectacles made with lenses of this material, once used to view certain 3-D movies, now used as sunglasses.
- She went to see BWANA DEVIL and, after donning the polaroids, saw correctly. — 1978
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A sheet of plastic embedded with microscopic crystals of herapathite or similarly acting material, so that light passing through it is polarized.
- If there is no sample in the cell, and the second polaroid is rotated until it is at right angles to the first, the observer will see no light. — 1999

verb1

(informal) To photograph with a polaroid camera.

forms

polaroided · polaroiding · polaroids · Polaroids

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