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Definition of Microfilm

1. Noun. Film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material.

Definition of Microfilm

1. Noun. A continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size ¹

2. Verb. To reproduce documents on such film ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Microfilm

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Microfilm

1. 1. A photographic film bearing greatly reduced images of printed records. 2. To record on microfilm. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microfilm

Literary usage of Microfilm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the edited by Charles E. Schamel (1997)
"Both the microfilm and the data base, developed to comply with the ... The microfilm reproduces POW/MIA documentation sent to LC-FRD by the Central ..."

2. Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment by William S. Brockman (2001)
"Some projects permit the use of facsimiles or microfilm. The scholars whom we studied used commercially available microfilm sets as well as custom-made and ..."

3. Ancestry of the Population of the U. S.Reference - (1994)
"Selected written entries in the race question on both the short and long forms were keyed from the microfilm and coded using the data base developed from ..."

4. Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access by Steven T. Puglia, Jeffrey Reed, Erin Rhodes (2005)
"For color copy transparencies and color microfilm, if the color intermediate has a Kodak gray scale in the image, adjust the scanner settings using the ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"(1) did not propose putting scientific articles on microfilm and providing "hard copies" only on request. Instead we argued specifically against such an ..."

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