microfilm

From micro- +‎ film.

microfilm (countable and uncountable, plural microfilms)

1. A continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size.
   • 2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), pages 200-201:

     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.

• microfilm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

microfilm (third-person singular simple present microfilms, present participle microfilming, simple past and past participle microfilmed)

1. (transitive) To reproduce (documents) on such film.
   • 1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, pages 48–49:

     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.

• microfiche

From micro- +‎ film.

• IPA^(key): /mi.kʁɔ.film/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland):

  (file)

microfilm m (plural microfilms)

1. microfilm

• “microfilm”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English microfilm.

microfilm m (invariable)

1. microfilm

• lettore di microfilm (“microfilm reader”)

Borrowed from French microfilm or German Mikrofilm. By surface analysis, micro- +‎ film.

microfilm n (plural microfilme)

1. microfilm

Borrowed from English microfilm.

• IPA^(key): /mikɾoˈfilm/
• Rhymes: -ilm
• Syllabification: mi‧cro‧film

microfilm m (plural microfilms)

1. microfilm

• “microfilm”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014