microfiche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French microfiche.

Noun

microfiche (plural microfiches)

1. A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding several hundred reduced images of document pages, read using a microfiche reader or microfilm reader.
2. A device used to magnify and read these sheets.

Translations

sheet of microfilm

• Dutch: microfiche (nl) m or n
• Finnish: filmikortti
• German: Mikrofiche m or n

device

• Finnish: mikrofilmien lukulaite
• German: Mikrofiche-Lesegerät n

Verb

microfiche (third-person singular simple present microfiches, present participle microfiching, simple past and past participle microfiched)

1. (transitive) To convert (documents) to microfiche format.

French

Etymology

From micro- +‎ fiche.

Noun

microfiche f (plural microfiches)

1. microfiche

Further reading

• “microfiche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French microfiche.

Noun

microfiche f (invariable)

1. microfiche