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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
microfiche
noun
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▪ Contemporary Women Artists, a new colour microfiche is now on its second print run.
▪ It produces condensed volumes of modules which can be reproduced on paper, microfilm or microfiche.
▪ Microfilm and microfiche will be restored by a different method.
▪ The possibility of reducing words here could be very useful as televised text and microfiche present problems with eye fatigue and space.
▪ The relevant titles will be missing completely from Whitaker's microfiche services.
▪ There is a growing microfilm and microfiche collection.
▪ There is an already large microfilm collection, including microfiche herbaria.
▪ There were also one or two microfiche readers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
microfiche

1950, from French microfiche, from micro- + French fiche "slip of paper" (see fiche).

Wiktionary
microfiche

n. 1 A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding several hundred reduced images of document pages; read using a microfiche reader or microfilm reader. 2 A device used to magnify and read these sheets.

WordNet
microfiche

n. small sheet of microfilm on which many pages of material have been photographed; a magnification system is used to read the material

Usage examples of "microfiche".

He gave it back to Wigner, who dropped the microfiche in his desktop shredder.

Pierce reached silently through the window and picked up the microfiche envelope.

Network and slotted a second bootlegged microfiche into the slant-topped console.

Sighing, she grabbed the microfiche sheet, stood, and returned it to the file drawer.

Quickly, she pressed the print button, refusing to look at the screen, flipped the microfiche sheet back inside the folder, and returned the file to its proper place.

Finally she thought she might have found the right microfiche to put into the viewer.

She was in the back room of the Top of the Town Realty, going through their microfiche files.

She went back to the regular file and pulled out the microfiche for the Section, Township, and Quarter for that address.

Geneva turned back to the microfiche screen, wondering, You get away, Charles?

He looked quickly around the long row of shelves and saw the girl, staring at the microfiche screen.

Then he heard her pulling books off the shelf and stacking them up on the microfiche table.

She realized there was no way to get past him to the door unless she kept him focused on the microfiche table.

Rhyme nodded at a large plastic evidence bag containing a box of microfiche trays that Sachs had brought back from the library.

The Museum of African-American Journalism in New Haven reported that they had had a full set on microfiche but it had disappeared.

With a visible effort he slews the microfiche reader hood around so that I can see the screen, then taps one bony finger on a mechanical keypress.