microfiche

[mahy-kruh-feesh]

noun

plural

microfiche, microfiches 

1. a flat sheet of microfilm in a form suitable for filing, typically measuring 4 by 6 inches (10 by 15 centimeters) and containing microreproductions, as of printed or graphic matter, in a grid pattern.

verb (used with object)

microfiched, microfiching 

1. to enter or record on a microfiche.

   The correspondence was microfiched for easy storage.

microfiche

/ ˈmaɪkrəʊˌfiːʃ /

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: fiche. a sheet of film, usually the size of a filing card, on which books, newspapers, documents, etc, can be recorded in miniaturized form See also ultrafiche

Word History and Origins

Origin of microfiche¹

First recorded in 1945–50; micro- + French fiche “small card”

Word History and Origins

Origin of microfiche¹

C20: from French, from _micro- + fiche small card, from Old French fichier to fix

Example Sentences

Detectives went hunting for the Help Wanted ad, hunkered over the microfiche machine at the newspaper’s downtown office.

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Griggs used microfiche copies of The Facts newspaper to pin down The Gallery’s address and dates of operation.

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Your grocery store would be entirely shrouded in microfiche.

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Decades of police records stored as microfiche were transcribed into three, hefty logbooks for detectives to painstakingly examine.

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Yet although she conducts ample historical research, combing through census records and newspaper microfiche, she isn’t comfortable conjuring the setting and conditions of Hudgins’s life.

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Related Words

• image 
• model 
• photocopy 
• photograph 
• portrait 
• print 
• replica 
• reproduction 
• transcript 
• type