microfilm
English
Noun
microfilm (countable and uncountable, plural microfilms)
- a continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size
Translations
roll of film
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Verb
microfilm (third-person singular simple present microfilms, present participle microfilming, simple past and past participle microfilmed)
- 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
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See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.kʁɔ.film/
Audio (file) Audio (Switzerland) (file)
Further reading
- “microfilm”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Derived terms
- lettore di microfilm (“microfilm reader”)
Romanian
Declension
Declension of microfilm
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) microfilm | microfilmul | (niște) microfilme | microfilmele |
genitive/dative | (unui) microfilm | microfilmului | (unor) microfilme | microfilmelor |
vocative | microfilmule | microfilmelor |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mikɾoˈfilm/ [mi.kɾoˈfilm]
- Rhymes: -ilm
- Syllabification: mi‧cro‧film
Derived terms
Further reading
- “microfilm”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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