PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photographic film mean? 

• PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM (noun)
  The noun PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

film; photographic film

Hypernyms ("photographic film" is a kind of...):

photographic material; photographic paper (light-sensitive paper on which photograph can be printed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photographic film"):

footage (film that has been shot)

microfilm (film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material)

cine-film; motion-picture film; movie film (photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool; to be used in a movie camera)

negative (a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed)

orthochromatic film (a photographic film sensitive to green and blue and violet light)

panchromatic film (photographic film sensitive to light of all colors (including red))

positive (a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject)

reel (a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector)

roll (photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light)

roll film (photographic film wound on a spool)

episode; sequence (film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie)

X-ray film (photographic film used to make X-ray pictures)

film clip (a strip of motion picture film used in a telecast)