film advance

1. 1.

   a mechanism for advancing film in a camera or projector

   Broadermechanism

Questions about film advance

What does film advance mean?

film advance means "a mechanism for advancing film in a camera or projector".

Is film advance a common word?

film advance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.