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▪ I. microdot, n.|ˈmaɪkrəʊdɒt|
[f. micro- (here merely emphasizing the smallness implied by dot) + dot n.1]
1. A photograph, esp. of printed or written matter, reduced to about the size of a dot. Freq. attrib.
1946J. E. Hoover in Reader's Digest May 50/2 It was incredibly ingenious and effective, this micro-dot gadget. It perfectly counterfeited a typewritten or printed dot. The young Balkan agent, for example, had four telegraph blanks in his pocket, carrying Lilliputian spy orders that looked like periods; 11 micro-dots on the four papers. 1961Daily Mail 8 Feb. 10/1 There was also a piece of glass with three microdots between the pieces of glass. These little dots are tiny pieces of film... By enlarging the dots again you can see what they contain. One microdot can contain a great deal of writing. 1964M. Gowing Britain & Atomic Energy ix. 246 The communication of the message was in the best spy thriller traditions; it was by a micro⁓dot concealed in the hollow handle of a doorkey. 1965I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun viii. 108 The minor tools of espionage—codes, microdot developers, cyanide. 1968Listener 1 Aug. 150/1 A house stacked with high-frequency transmitters, microdot readers.
2. A tiny capsule or tablet of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
1971Oxford Times 10 Dec. 1/5 Produced 2½ microdot tablets in foil which were later found to contain LSD. 1972Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 5 Jan. 1/1 Called a microdot, the deceptively small, purple pill packs super-concentrated doses of the hallucinatory drug LSD. 1973R. Busby Pattern of Violence v. 81 Gelatine micro-dots of the hallucinogenic drug LSD.
▪ II. microdot, v.|ˈmaɪkrəʊdɒt|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To make a microdot or microdots of. So ˈmicrodotting vbl. n.
1957Time 28 Oct. 22 Some messages were recorded on a film which could be softened and rolled into a ball; others were microdotted, i.e., whole pages of printing were reduced on film to pinhead size. 1961Daily Tel. 22 Mar. 23/5 The wireless transmitter and equipment for micro⁓dotting at the house. 1963J. Joesten They call it Intelligence i. vi. 61 Colonel Abel..did a brisk business in micro⁓dotting. 1969D. Lambert Angels in Snow xix. 251 He decided to micro-dot the information and despatch it to Washington. |