cel

A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.

Noun

  1. A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.
    • After Jobs’s $5 million offer was rejected, the team attempted to do a deal with Disney, then a bastion of hand-painted cel animation. - 2008 June 22, Michael Hirschorn, “Success Story 2”, in New York Times:

Origin

Clipping of celluloid.

Forms

cels cell

Derived

cel-shaded cel shading

Noun abbreviation, alt of

  1. Clipping of celibacy or celibate.

Origin

Clipping of celibate.

Forms

cels cell

Synonyms

celibate truecel trucel

Derived

heightcel hicel incel marcel nearcel noncel truecel volcel

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