microfilm

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English

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Etymology

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From micro- +‎ film.

Noun

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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.

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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.

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French

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Etymology

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From micro- +‎ film.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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microfilm m (plural microfilms)

  1. microfilm

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English microfilm.

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microfilm m (invariable)

  1. microfilm

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Romanian

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Etymology

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

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microfilm n (plural microfilme)

  1. microfilm

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English microfilm.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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microfilm m (plural microfilms)

  1. microfilm

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