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say it: kuh-LOH-dee-uhn
collodion is a noun meaning "a colorless syrupy solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol; used as a coating for wounds or photographic films". It is pronounced /kəˈloʊdiən/ — kuh-LOH-dee-uhn. It carries one recorded sense.
a colorless syrupy solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol; used as a coating for wounds or photographic films
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for collodion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.