microfilm
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.
microfilmed
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past participleof microfilm.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof microfilm.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
microfilmnouna 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.
Example Sentences
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A volunteer in the 1990s, Robert E. Denney, was unbundling Civil War service records to be microfilmed when he saw an opportunity with a curio that had outlasted its usefulness.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
Unsalvageable pages were microfilmed, and many books were replaced with gifts.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
The collection includes more than 4,600 English- and Japanese-language issues published in 13 camps and later microfilmed by the Library.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
According to the Postal Museum, V-Mail microfilmed specially designed letter sheets.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2019
Fuller distributed prints of the microfilmed plans for the equipment that he had packed in the library, and the factory engineers worked from them to build the necessary equipment.
From Islands of Space by John Wood Campbell
