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UK
/mˈaɪkɹəʊdˌɒt/
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NOUN
- photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security)
How To Use microdot In A Sentence
- These coins could be shrink wrapped with an embedded microdot to assure authenticity, preventing counterfeits or forgeries.
- There's new technology to identify parts, called VIN microdots.
- Livescribe's smartpens write on a special kind of microdot paper that enables an infrared camera at the tip of the pen to track everything the user writes. FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten
- The Germans developed a miniature photograph, called a microdot, which reduced a foolscap page to the size of a full stop; this might easily pass a censor unnoticed.
- It contains microdots bearing a code unique to the household where it is used, while the liquid in each tube also has its own DNA-style identity in case the microdots are brushed away during cleaning.
- And it was particularly odd when that role was assumed by the leaders of Singapore, a microdot of a city-state with a population of just five million. Zero-Sum Future
- As microdots are seen as a valuable tool for vehicle identification by the SAPS a Protocol for access by SAPS for data base information which facilitates identification of a vehicle by SAPS through the manufacturer's data base.
- Areas where the glue was applied show up under ultraviolet light, and police can read the microdots using a hand-held illuminated magnifier.
- Here, my eyes would glaze over as I flash backed to the summer I spent putting little purple microdot tabs of mescaline in my mouth, waiting for that hallucinatory high.
- On the other hand, Merkin writes of a solitary journey of "microdot-ing" her past and present feelings to a succession of therapists over four decades in an attempt to come to a cohesive sense of self. Laura Baudo Sillerman: Reading The New Yorker , Thinking About Daphne Merkin