microfiche

mi·cro·fiche

M0273200 (mī′krō-fēsh′)n. pl. microfiche or mi·cro·fich·es A card or sheet of microfilm capable of accommodating and preserving a considerable number of pages, as of printed text, in reduced form.

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[French : Greek mīkro-, micro- + French fiche, peg, slip of paper, index card (from Old French, peg, from fichier, to drive in, fasten, from Vulgar Latin *fīgicāre, from Latin fīgere; see dhīg^w- in Indo-European roots).]

microfiche

(ˈmaɪkrəʊˌfiːʃ) n (Photography) a sheet of film, usually the size of a filing card, on which books, newspapers, documents, etc, can be recorded in miniaturized form. Sometimes shortened to: fiche See also ultrafiche[C20: from French, from micro- + fiche small card, from Old French fichier to fix]

mi•cro•fiche

(ˈmaɪ krəˌfiʃ)

n., pl. -fiche, -fich•es. a flat sheet of microfilm, containing reproductions of printed or graphic matter. Also called fiche. [1945–50; micro- + French fiche sheet, slip, index card, (earlier) marker, peg, n. derivative of ficher to drive in, fix; see fichu]

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microfiche - small sheet of microfilm on which many pages of material have been photographed; a magnification system is used to read the materialmicrofilm - film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material

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microfiche