microfilm
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microfilm
noun microfilms
- A continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size. This detail made it easier, decades later, when I was browsing through reels of microfilms of The New York Times, to establish that morning’s date.
verb microfilms · microfilming · microfilmed
- To reproduce (documents) on such film. Power set up a camera in the British Museum and eventually microfilmed many pre-1640 English books that he selected from Pollard and Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (STC) and other important works in the museum’s collections.
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noun roll of film
| Español | microfilm |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Mikrofilm |
| Italiano | microfilm |
| Ελληνικά | μικροφίλμ mikrofílm |
| Русский | микрофи́льм mikrofílʹm |
| Tiếng Việt | vi phim |
verb reproduce documents on microfilm
| Español | microfilmar |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | auf Mikrofilm sichern, auf Mikrofilm speichern |
| Ελληνικά | αναπαράγω στο μικροφίλμ anaparágo sto mikrofílm |
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@misc{microfilm_2026,
title = {microfilm},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/microfilm},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
