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microfilm
[ mahy-kruh-film ]
noun
- a film bearing a miniature photographic copy of printed or other graphic matter, usually of a document, newspaper or book pages, etc., made for a library, archive, or the like.
- a film, especially of motion-picture stock, on which microcopies are made.
verb (used with object)
- to make a microfilm of.
microfilm
/ ˈmaɪkrəʊˌfɪlm /
noun
- a strip of film of standard width on which books, newspapers, documents, etc, can be recorded in miniaturized form
verb
- to photograph (a page, document, etc) on microfilm
microfilm
- A film on which miniature copies of documents are reproduced. Microfilm allows for very compact storage of books and documents.
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- micro·filmer noun
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Example Sentences
Donnaught dragged the bulky microfilm volume out of its locker, and they explored its pages.
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Ultimately, microfilm copies of these records will be made available to research libraries in the United States.
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"Better make microfilm copies for everybody," Heym ben-Hillel suggested.
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He had returned just as Farida Khouroglu was finishing the microfilm copies of Kato's ingeniously-concocted pseudo-data.
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I want the whole thing copied on microfilm, four negatives of everything in the file.
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