A Polaroid camera is a small camera that can take, develop, and print a photograph in a few seconds.
[trademark]
Polaroid film is very sensitive.
2. countable noun
A Polaroid is a photograph taken with a Polaroid camera.
I took a Polaroid of them so I could remember them when they were gone.
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Polaroid sunglasses have been treated with a special substance in order to make the sun seem less bright.
Polaroid in British English
(ˈpəʊləˌrɔɪd)
noun
1. trademark
a type of plastic sheet that can polarize a transmitted beam of normal light because it is composed of long parallel molecules. It only transmits plane-polarized light if these molecules are parallel to the plane of polarization and, since reflected light is partly polarized, it is often used in sunglasses to eliminate glare
2. Polaroid Land Camera
3. (plural)
sunglasses with lenses made from Polaroid plastic
adjective
4.
of, relating to, using, or used in a Polaroid Land Camera
Polaroid film
Polaroid in American English
(ˈpoʊləˌrɔɪd)
US
trademark
1.
a transparent material containing embedded crystals capable of polarizing light: used in optics, photography, etc.
2.
a.
a camera that develops the film negative internally and produces a print within seconds after the process is initiated
b.
such a photograph
Word origin
polar + -oid; (sense 2a) short for Polaroid Land Camera
Examples of 'Polaroid' in a sentence
Polaroid
It was a Polaroid, one of those pictures taken for lovers at tourist spots.
Tony Parsons MAN AND WIFE (2002)
The sound caught snippets of conversations, and the screen occasionally flared when the Polaroid 's flash went off.
Clancy, Tom CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER (2002)
In other languages
Polaroid
British English: Polaroid ADJECTIVE
A Polaroid camera is a small camera that can take, develop, and print a photograph in a few seconds.
He called the Polaroid camera a godsend to his work.