microfiche
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French microfiche.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfɪʃ/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
microfiche (plural microfiches)
- A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding several hundred reduced images of document pages, read using a microfiche reader or microfilm reader.
- A device used to magnify and read these sheets.
Translations
sheet of microfilm
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device
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Verb
microfiche (third-person singular simple present microfiches, present participle microfiching, simple past and past participle microfiched)
- (transitive) To convert (documents) to microfiche format.
French
Etymology
Noun
microfiche f (plural microfiches)
Further reading
- “microfiche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French microfiche.
Noun
microfiche f (invariable)