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English
Etymology
From micro- + film.
Noun
microfilm (countable and uncountable, plural microfilms)
- 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.
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Verb
microfilm (third-person singular simple present microfilms, present participle microfilming, simple past and past participle microfilmed)
- (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.
Translations
reproduce documents on microfilm
See also
French
Etymology
From micro- + film.
Pronunciation
Noun
microfilm m (plural microfilms)
- microfilm
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Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English microfilm.
Noun
microfilm m (invariable)
- microfilm
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French microfilm or German Mikrofilm. By surface analysis, micro- + film.
Noun
microfilm n (plural microfilme)
- microfilm
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English microfilm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mikɾoˈfilm/
- Rhymes: -ilm
- Syllabification: mi‧cro‧film
Noun
microfilm m (plural microfilms)
- microfilm
Derived terms
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