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GEORGE EASTMAN

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GEORGE EASTMAN (noun)
  The noun GEORGE EASTMAN has 1 sense:

1. United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)play

  Familiarity information: GEORGE EASTMAN used as a noun is very rare.


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GEORGE EASTMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Eastman; George Eastman

Instance hypernyms:

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)


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