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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Polaroid

material which in thin sheets produces a high degree of plane polarization of light passing through it, 1936, proprietary name (Sheet Polarizer Co., Union City, N.J.). As a type of camera producing prints rapidly, it is attested from 1961.

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polaroid

n. 1 A sheet of plastic embedded with microscopic crystals of herapathite or similarly acting material, so that light passing through it is polarised. 2 (context dated in the plural English) spectacles made with lenses of '''polaroid''', once used to view certain 3-D movies. 3 (context in the plural English) polaroid sunglasses. 4 A camera that develops its own film. 5 A print from such a camera.

Wikipedia
Polaroid (polarizer)

A trademark of the Polaroid Corporation, polaroid has been the common name for a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used as a polarizer or polarizing filter.

Polaroid (album)

Polaroid' is a 1999 b-side album released by Phantom Planet. It was released between their debut album Is Missing, released in 1998, and The Guest, which was released in 2002. The songs on the record are culled from the recording process of Is Missing. It is available only through the band's fan club.

Polaroid

Polaroid may refer to:

  • Polaroid Corporation, an American worldwide consumer electronics and eyewear company, and former instant camera and film maker
  • Polaroid camera, or instant camera
  • Polaroid film, instant film and photographs
  • Polaroid (polarizer), a type of synthetic plastic sheet used to polarize light
  • Polaroid Eyewear, with glare-reducing polarized lenses made from Polaroid's polarizer
  • Polaroid Song (2012), a French short film directed by Alphonse Giorgi and Yann Tivrier

In music:

  • Polaroid (album), an album by Phantom Planet
  • Gentlemen Take Polaroids, an album by the new wave/art pop band Japan
  • Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection, a compilation album by Shawn Colvin
  • "Polaroid", a 2012 song by Imagine Dragons

Usage examples of "polaroid".

They came from a Kodak instant camera Kodak had to stop making film for in the mideighties due to the verdict of a lawsuit brought against them by Polaroid.

Photos from the crime scene and her own Polaroids were scattered across her lap.

They took the Polaroids out of their pockets, lined them up on the counter and started talking about camera angles.

It was a three-quarter Polaroid shot of Fletch in a tennis shirt in the Racquets Club pavilion.

Now, in the surveillance Chevrolet, the two Colombian hoodlums were searching through a collection of Polaroid photos which Carlos, an adept photographer, had taken of all persons seen to have entered the Sloane house during the past four weeks.

It fills the abandoned Washateria with a glare brighter than the flash of the cheapie Polaroid, and unlike the Polaroid, it's constant.

I for one will be sleeping with my Polaroid from now on, in hopes that the next time I'm abducted I can provide the proof needed.

Dom asked, indirectly inquiring if any more Polaroids had been received.

Such is the demented nature of the universe that I was too weak to properly respond to my being hit on by carloads of Betties and Veronicasall except for the cheeky Cheryl Anderson who gave me 'manual release' the day I lost my eyebrows, followed by a flood of tears and the snapping of Polaroids in which I wear a knit toque.

The polaroid in his windows was the consequence of his logarithms and the tinted briquets advertised his long division.

When she went into the bathroom to pee, she looked in her purse for her lip gloss and found the tube of Polaroid print coater, which she’d apparently taken from the floor of Rooie’s room by mistake.

Her message, together with the Polaroid print coater, would tell Harry Hoekstra much more than Ruth had meant to say.

The Polaroid print coater with the azure-blue cap could have been purchased in either Amsterdam or Zurich.

It came out of emotional nowheres all of a sudden, and he found himself blubbering at the loss of organized ball, his one gift and other love, his own stupidity and lack of discipline, that blasted cocksucking Ethan From, his Mom's Sir Osis and vegetabilization and his failure after four years ever yet to visit, feeling suddenly lower than bottom-feeder-shit, standing over hot laminates and Polaroid squares and little stick-on D.

Finally she assembled her collection of evidence, shell casings, blood samples, fingerprints and Polaroids of footprints.