photographic film

1. 1.

   photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies

   Synonymsfilm

   Broaderphotographic paper

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Questions about photographic film

What does photographic film mean?

photographic film means "photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies".

What is another word for photographic film?

Close synonyms include film. 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 film a common word?

photographic film 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.