microfilm
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
microfilm (countable and uncountable, plural microfilms)
- a continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size
Translations edit
roll of film
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Further reading edit
Verb edit
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 edit
reproduce documents on microfilm
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See also edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
microfilm m (plural microfilms)
Further reading edit
- “microfilm”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English microfilm.
Noun edit
microfilm m (invariable)
Derived terms edit
- lettore di microfilm (“microfilm reader”)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French microfilm or German Mikrofilm. By surface analysis, micro- + film.
Noun edit
microfilm n (plural microfilme)
Declension edit
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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English microfilm.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
microfilm m (plural microfilms)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “microfilm”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014