ultrafichen.
/ˈʌltrəfiːʃ/ A microfiche in which the linear reduction of the image size is of the order of 100 or more; documentary material of this kind.
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meter1832
time stamp1855
telemeter1877
tape recorder1892
slot-meter1899
motor meter1903
check meter1909
Recordak1928
Thermo-Fax1953
ultramicrofiche1967
ultrafiche1971
electronic tag1980
1971 Collier's 1971 Year Book 322/1 (caption) On one card, over 3,000 pages are reduced to microscopic proportions... The cards, called ultrafiches or microfiches, are magnified in the reader.
1972 Physics Bull. Sept. 522/1 Flat sheets of film, known as ultrafiche and measuring 6 in × 4 in can contain more than 3000 pages of normal text.
1972 Times 1 Dec. (Suppl.) p. ii/6 Ultrafiches of the photochronic micro image process store up to 4,000 pages on a 4 in by 6 in film.
1975 New Yorker 22 Dec. 30/1 They brought out the Bible on an ultrafiche... The whole book on a piece of film two inches square.
1976 P. Harcourt Dance for Diplomats xii. 135 The really vital thing is a bit of ultrafiche—that's some form of microfilm.
1981 Jacobstein & Mersky Fund. Legal Res. (ed. 2) 447 In some instances up to 1700 pages can be placed on a single sheet of ultrafiche.
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