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▪ I. microfilm, n.|ˈmaɪkrəʊfɪlm|
Also with hyphen.
[f. micro- 7 + film n.]
1. (A length of) photographic film containing microphotographs of the pages of a book, periodical, etc.
1935Library Jrnl. LX. 145/1 The only way to find out how well the film, made by M. Dagron, has preserved its original qualities during its sixty-four years, was to consider it like one of our modern micro-films and try to print enlargements from it. 1936Science 1 May 403/1 Bibliofilm Service copied upon 35 mm film material in the library [sc. U.S. Department of Agriculture library], substituting microfilm for loan of the books and journals. 1936Dialect Notes VI. 528 Documents in microfilm form..will cost approximately 1 cent a page. 1939Nature 11 Mar. 392/2 The so-called micro-film..offers one means for the photographic reproduction of bulky reports. 1940A. Huxley Let. 14 Oct. (1969) 461 All the big libraries make these micro-films now. 1948Times 17 Feb. 7/4 A brochure describing the micro-film reproduction of The Times from its first issue in 1785 to the present day. 1957Listener 24 Oct. 646/2, I should not be able to go to California or Russia. I should just have to go home and work with microfilms. 1961L. Mumford City in Hist. xvii. 546 What is visible and real in this world is only what has been transferred to paper or has been even further etherialized on a microfilm or a tape recorder. 1972English Studies LIII. 533 He reads Eckhart in Latin at the public library from microfilm.
2. Special Comb.: microfilm reader, a small projector used to produce a readable image from microfilm; microfilm viewer (see quot.).
1950Amer. Documentation I. 139/2 (caption) Griscombe portable microfilm reader. 1962A. Günther Microphotogr. in Library (Unesco) 8 A system whereby..positive microfilm strips copied from the negative master are kept near the microfilm reader offers the best advantages.
1936Science 1 May 403/2 Microfilm viewer—a small monocular optical device for reading 35 mm microfilms a line at a time, suitable for inspecting film or for use while travelling.
▪ II. microfilm, v.|ˈmaɪkrəʊfɪlm|
[f. the n.]
trans. To record on microfilm. Hence ˈmicrofilming vbl. n.
1940N. & Q. 12 Oct. 253/2 Steps are being taken to have parish registers microfilmed... Micro-filming is a very cheap as well as speedy process. 1955Times 28 July 9/4 It is intended to continue the microfilming..as and when funds permit. 1955H. van Thal Fanfare for E. Newman v. 63 The Germans, who have always held Bizet in high respect,..micro-filmed the manuscript. 1972M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha ii. 76 Any microfilming service would do the job at ten cents a page. 1973F. De Felitta Oktoberfest (1974) xiv. 164 There are a number of sources of wartime documentation which Yad Vashem has not yet microfilmed. |