celluloid

Adjective

• artificial as if portrayed in a film
  • a novel with flat celluloid characters
    

Noun

• a medium that disseminates moving pictures
  • theater pieces transferred to celluloid
    
  • this story would be good cinema
    
  • film coverage of sporting events
    

• highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  synthetic , film , cinema