microfilm
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editmicrofilm (countable and uncountable, plural microfilms)
- 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.
Translations
editroll of film
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Further reading
editVerb
editmicrofilm (third-person singular simple present microfilms, present participle microfilming, simple past and past participle microfilmed)
- (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.
Translations
editreproduce documents on microfilm
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See also
editFrench
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /mi.kʁɔ.film/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file)
Noun
editmicrofilm m (plural microfilms)
Further reading
edit- “microfilm”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English microfilm.
Noun
editmicrofilm m (invariable)
Derived terms
edit- lettore di microfilm (“microfilm reader”)
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French microfilm or German Mikrofilm. By surface analysis, micro- + film.
Noun
editmicrofilm n (plural microfilme)
Declension
editDeclension 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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English microfilm.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmicrofilm m (plural microfilms)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “microfilm”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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