microfilm

English

Etymology

micro- + film

Noun

microfilm (countable and uncountable, plural microfilms)

  1. a continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size

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Verb

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

  1. 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.

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French

Etymology

From micro- + film.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.kʁɔ.film/
  • (file)
  • (file)

Noun

microfilm m (plural microfilms)

  1. microfilm

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English microfilm.

Noun

microfilm m (invariable)

  1. microfilm

Derived terms

  • lettore di microfilm (microfilm reader)

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

microfilm n (plural microfilme)

  1. microfilm

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English microfilm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mikɾoˈfilm/ [mi.kɾoˈfilm]
  • Rhymes: -ilm
  • Syllabification: mi‧cro‧film

Noun

microfilm m (plural microfilms)

  1. microfilm

Derived terms

Further reading

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