Film (?), n.
(Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates; also,
the flexible sheet of celluloid or the like on which this layer is sometimes mounted.
Celluloid film
(Photog.), a thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates. -- Cut film (Photog.),
a celluloid film cut into
pieces suitable for use in a camera.
Film , v. t. To cover with a
thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and
film the ulcerous place.
Shak.
Film (?), n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to
fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.]
1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering,
causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
Pope. 2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
Shak.
Hear it pronounced