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plastic film

n. a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things [syn: film]

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Plastic film

Plastic film is a thin continuous polymeric material. Thicker plastic material is often called a “sheet”. These thin plastic membranes are used to separate areas or volumes, to hold items, to act as barriers, or as printable surfaces.

Plastic films are used in a wide variety of applications. These include: packaging, plastic bags, labels, building construction, landscaping, electrical fabrication, photographic film, film stock for movies, video tape, etc.

Usage examples of "plastic film".

All of a sudden she was very busy putting clear plastic film over all the desserts.

I reached into a pocket and hurled the empty plastic film canister at Victor Shadowman.

It was a plastic film canister, red with a grey cap, the kind you keep a roll of film in when you send it in to the processors.

Mrrim offered him a tape, printed on the watery blue plastic film which Ken later realized was used for all governmental declarations, sealed with many odd designs which were the official signatures of the various participating or endorsing Speakers.

The window had been covered from the inside with a thin, shiny plastic film.

Each ball was coated with a plastic film that peeled away when penetrating a target, and then the ball tended to disintegrate.