celluloid vs synthetic

celluloid

noun
  • Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film. 

  • The genre of cinema; film. 

synthetic

noun
  • A synthetic compound. 

adj
  • Of, or relating to synthesis. 

  • Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained). 

  • Artificial, not genuine. 

  • Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it. 

  • Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic). 

  • Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic). 

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