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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fiche

1949, "slip of paper, form," especially "the form filled in by foreign guests in French hotels" [OED], from French fiche "card, index card, slip, form" (15c.), verbal noun from Old French fichier "to attach, stick into, pin on" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *figicare, from Latin figere "to fix, fasten" (see fix (v.)). Sense of "card, strip of film" is a shortening of microfiche (1950).

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fiche

n. a microfiche

fiché

a. (context heraldry English) (alternative form of fitché English)

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Fiche

Fiche (also spelled Fikke) is a town in central Ethiopia. It is the administrative centre of the Semien Shewa Zone of Oromiya Region and separate woreda. It is located about three km from the main Addis Ababa- Debre Marqos road, Fiche has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation between 2,738 and 2,782 metres above sea level.

Notable landmarks in Fiche include the churches Fiche Giyorgis Bete Kristiyan and Fiche Medhane Alem Bete Kristiyan. The town is also home to several notable Ethiopian painters of religious themes: Alaqa Gebre Selassie Adil (1881-1975), Emealaf Hiruy (1907-1971), and Alefelege Selam (1924- ).

Usage examples of "fiche".

GoBop explained, pulling sheets of software fiche from zippered vest pockets like some comp magician.

Admiral Anders, the Imperial Chief of Naval Operations, looked at the progs on the five wallscreens, then at the sixteen fiches projected across his desk.

His freshman year had been a blur of auditorium-sized classes, expensive fiches, loneliness, and work.

Doorman finished his briefing and passed out fiches of the operations order.

Badung might possibly have gone into Imperial history and fleet instructional fiches as a classic mosquito action.

He gestured to a short stack of software fiches sealed in NetSec evidence envelopes.

And most of the losses, he discovered by wading through endless fiches on accident boards, had been due to inept pilotage.

Or so, Tjanting said, a colleague specializing in med supplies had told her when she called back and read him the bill-of-lading fiche.

His freshman year had been a blur of auditorium-sized classes, expensive fiches, loneliness, and work.

The pigeonholes were unmarked, each containing a pile of faded flimsiplast scrolls and the newer fiches of translations.

A bit bigger than the other hovels—and filled with fiches, microfiches, and piles and piles of books.