EASTMAN

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• EASTMAN (noun)
  The noun EASTMAN has 1 sense:

1. United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)

  Familiarity information: EASTMAN used as a noun is very rare.

• EASTMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Eastman; George Eastman

Instance hypernyms:

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

 Context examples 

Derived from inbred Hartley stocks at the Eastman Kodak Company and Montreal's Institute Armand Frappier, having undergone spontaneous mutation that led to hairlessness and athymicity.

(Hartley Albino Hairless Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)