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单词 filmless
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filmlessadj.

Brit. /ˈfɪlmlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈfɪlmlᵻs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: film n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < film n. + -less suffix.
1. Chiefly poetic. Not covered or obscured by a film; clear. Obsolete.
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1800 J. Cottle Alfred xxviii. 410 With eye wide open, darts his filmless gaze.
1818 H. H. Milman Samor viii. 223 The filmless, the pellucid heaven above One broad pure sheet of sunlight.
1872 E. H. Bickersteth Evening Hours II. 48/2 They stand in robes of filmless white, And reign with Him for ever.
1903 Forest & Stream 6 June 441/2 Only in the calm of early hours, when the east is absolutely filmless, does this weird, evanescent halo rest upon the world.
2. That does not use or has not been recorded on photographic or cinematographic film; (now) esp. that uses digital technology in place of film.
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1900 Photogr. Dealer Feb. 29/1 The Filmless Animated Photograph Machine.
1964 Proc. Informal Meeting on Film-less Spark Chamber Techniques (CERN 64-30) 362 The major cost of these systems is in the electronic equipment for recording and storing the digitized information, also required for other ‘film-less’ methods.
1994 Australian 19 Apr. (Brisbane ed.) 43/2 Hammersmith hospital in west London is poised to become the world's first filmless hospital..when X-ray films will no longer be held against light boxes for a doctor's diagnosis.
2002 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 21 May a1 Star Wars: Episode II–Attack of the Clones is the first major filmless Hollywood film. The first to be shot, edited and, if you're lucky enough to see it in the right theatre, projected with digital technology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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