polaroid
/pˈoʊlɚˌɔɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of polaroid.
noun
A sheet of plastic embedded with microscopic crystals of herapathite or similarly acting material, so that light passing through it is polarized.
Example Sentences
- "The doctor took a Polaroid."
- "In the simplest form of this system, applicable to many microscopes, the substage polar consists only of semicircles of polaroid orientated to give respective planes of polarisation at right angles. Polaroids over the eyepieces are orientated so extinguish the inner halves of the exit pupils."
- "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."
- "Polaroids are used as window screens to regulate the amount of light entering the room."
- "She went to see BWANA DEVIL and, after donning the polaroids, saw correctly."
- "[…]I discovered my old woggle in a cardboard box, together with my Herald Learn-To-Swim certificate (25 yards without touching the bottom), a copy of the Eltham High School magazine and a pair of polaroids I pinched from a 3-D screening of Bwana Devil in 1953."