- a tough, highly flammable substance consisting essentially of nitrocellulose and camphor: once used in the manufacture of motion-picture and x-ray film, it is now used in a limited line of other products, including guitar picks, musical instruments, and table tennis balls.
- motion-picture film: He was an intense director and a scrupulous editor, famous for leaving piles of celluloid on the cutting-room floor.
- of or involving motion pictures: a star of the stage who was never lured into the celluloid industry.
- a flammable thermoplastic material consisting of cellulose nitrate mixed with a plasticizer, usually camphor: used in sheets, rods, and tubes for making a wide range of articles
- a cellulose derivative used for coating film
- one of the transparent sheets on which the constituent drawings of an animated film are prepared
- a transparent sheet used as an overlay in artwork
- cinema film
