photographic film

collocation in English

meaningsofphotographicandfilm

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photographic
adjective
uk
/ˌfəʊ.təˈɡræf.ɪk/us
/ˌfoʊ.t̬əˈɡræf.ɪk/
relating to, used for, or produced ...
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film
noun
uk
/fɪlm/us
/fɪlm/
mainly UK
a series of moving pictures, usually shown in a cinema or on television and often telling ...
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(Definition ofphotographicandfilmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One or more layers ofphotographicfilmare used as diaphragms and are punctured by a solenoid-operated plunger needle.
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The turbulent mixing process evolution is recorded on thephotographicfilmby means of a drum-type photographic recorder.
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Because of the expense of usingphotographicfilmand its inherent inaccuracy, all image readouts will be electronic.
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This eliminates errors due to nonlinearities associated with the process of developing thephotographicfilm, a process that cannot be controlled easily to the required accuracy.
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The dynamic range of thephotographicfilmis also limited (roughly 300 grey levels) compared with that of a digitizing camera (4096 levels on the 12-bit camera used here).
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Before this date, and from the onset of the naval nuclear propulsion programme, thephotographicfilmdosimeter was used.
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Longer newsreels could only be permitted at the cost of forgoing valuable exports of unexposedphotographicfilm.
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The same is true of the washing machine, the refrigerator, the spin-dryer, the vacuum cleaner, the camera, the electric blanket, even the umbrella and thephotographicfilm.
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As far as other exceptions such as photolithography processes and anti-reflective coating and industrial treatments forphotographicfilmare concerned, the quantities in question are very small.
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The demands forphotographicfilmfor essential war requirements are very heavy, but as large supplies as the circumstances allow have been allocated to photographic dealers and photographers.
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The company manufactures monochromephotographicfilm35mm to 20 x24 as well as photographic paper and chemicals.
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Photographicfilmor the magnetic storage medium inside floppy disks can be used as inexpensive visible-light filters.
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At a microscopic level, developed black-and-whitephotographicfilmalso consists of only two colors, and not an infinite range of continuous tones.
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Traditionally these were badges containingphotographicfilm(film badge dosimeter), which would be chemically developed following exposure to indicate the total absorbed dose received.
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They had taken the string galvanometer and adapted it to record signals from microphones ontophotographicfilm.
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In the case of magnetic tapes, contrary to traditional preservation storage rules for books andphotographicfilm, colder is certainly not better.
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The choice of colors on the blue end of the spectrum is because of the bias thatphotographicfilmhas for those colors.
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At first the film was the same asphotographicfilm.
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Color print film is the most common type ofphotographicfilmin consumer use.
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