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microfilm
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Word definitions for microfilm in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size vb. To reproduce documents on such film
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1927, coined from micro- + film (n.). The verb is first recorded 1940, from the noun. Related: Microfilmed ; microfilming .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material v. record on microfilm
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Microfilm \Mic"ro*film\, n. [Micro- + film.] a photographic film with one or more very small images of printed or other graphic matter. Numerous images, corresponding to the contents of a book, newspaper, or journal, are typically produced on one long roll ...
Usage examples of microfilm.
I know somebody in photo-lab who managed to get a third microfilm copy of the Skyjack bid.
So back to the bullpen, where I used a viewer to read through a two-hour microfilm about SMC systems engineering projects.
Security ever discovers an extra microfilm copy was run off, everyone in the photo-lab would be under a terrible questioning.
Laurel had diddled me, good, with all her talk of the security fluoroscope fogging up a roll of microfilm if a nurse tried to walk out with it.
June, appeared with a microfilm cartridge, which she loaded into the machine.
SASHA would be leaving four rolls of microfilm, fifty exposures to a roll, in a hollowed-out brick hidden in the bushes behind the James Buchanan statue in Meridian Hill Park.
Inside is a frame of microfilm containing emergency procedures for establishing contact in both Washington and Moscow.
There was a wad of five-hundred-dollar bills, four tiny microfilm canisters and a blank piece of paper which the agent handled gingerly so as not to eradicate the secret writing believed to be on it.
I put the microfilm back in the box, put my pencil and pad in my pocket, and left.
Debevois tore a May-something 2077 date-sheet off his desk calendar, made a paper dart of it, and shot it at his lagging stenographer, who was stooping to return a folder of microfilm to a bottom file drawer.
Hunched in front of the microfilm reader, Rya hugged herself and shivered.
Only pallid light as weak as moonbeams managed to pierce the frosted glass, and the glow from the microfilm machine did more to illuminate her troubled face.
Returning to the spools of microfilm and also to the hardcopy issues of the daily Register, we continued our research.
Any document, any record, any set of directions could be converted into microfilm, and a tiny piece of material on which that was recorded could be hidden anywhere and never be uncovered by anything but blind luck.
Joanna was hardly aware of speaking aloud, but since she was alone in the microfilm room, it hardly made a difference.