photographic emulsion

1. 1.

   a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin

   Synonymsemulsion

   Broadercoating

Questions about photographic emulsion

What does photographic emulsion mean?

photographic emulsion means "a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin".

What is another word for photographic emulsion?

Close synonyms include emulsion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is photographic emulsion a common word?

photographic emulsion 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.