a photographic film with one or more very small images of printed or other graphic matter. Numerous images, corresponding to the contents of a book, newspaper, or journal, are typically produced on one long roll of film, and may be viewed for reading in a special apparatus called a microfilm reader. [PJC]

microfilm, v. t.

to photograph and produce images of on microfilm. [PJC]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

microfilm, n. & v.
--n. a length of film bearing microphotographs of documents etc.
--v.tr. photograph (a document etc.) on microfilm.

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THESAURUS

microfilm

Flexowriter typewriter, Photostat, Teleplotter, X-ray, Xerox, alphabetical printer, backing, bibliofilm, bipack, black-and-white film, bulletin board, calotype, capture on film, card, cartridge, catalog card, clone, color film, color negative film, copy, digital graph plotter, disc, ditto, dope, double, dry plate, dupe, duplicate, emulsion, facsimile, file, filing card, film, frame, hard copy, hectograph, index card, library catalog, magnetic recorder, magnetic tape, manifold, microcard, microcards, microcopy, microdot, microfiche, mimeo, mimeograph, monochromatic film, motion-picture film, mug, multigraph, negative, orthochromatic film, oscillograph recorder, oscilloscope, pack, pan, panchromatic film, phonograph record, photograph, photographic paper, photomap, plate, platter, printing paper, printout, punch cards, punched tape, quadruplicate, radiograph, reader, readout, recorder, reduplicate, relay register, replicate, reproduce, roentgenograph, roll, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, shoot, slip, snap, snapshoot, snapshot, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, stat, take a photograph, talbotype, tape, tape reader, teletypewriter, ticker tape, trace, transcribe, tripack, triplicate, vehicle, videotape

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