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US
/ˈmaɪkɹəˌfɪɫm/
]
[ UK /mˈaɪkɹəʊfˌɪlm/ ]
[ UK /mˈaɪkɹəʊfˌɪlm/ ]
VERB
- record on microfilm
NOUN
- film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material
How To Use microfilm In A Sentence
- Most large libraries have copies, usually on microfilm, of newspapers from their regions.
- Fearing loss and destruction of the rare texts, the Japanese government previously donated about 50 million yen to fund their preservation on microfilm.
- It came out once a week and from 1963 to the present the back issues are on microfilm, but the issues before that are in an old coatroom in old banker's boxes labeled 1946, 1947.
- This is a wake-up call for all historians, libraries, museums and archives to protect and preserve their material by microfilming them.
- Two reading rooms are included, with seating for up to 50 people, 20 microfilm readers, and a study suite for groups.
- Most post-1914 materials are restricted in their use because they have not been catalogued and microfilmed.
- (Survey report 6801 summarizing Adm. 68/195, 156v, and other data in Adm. 68/194 and/196, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; A letter of Carter's executors to Dawkins 1738 May 10 refers to "your ship Bailey.") [3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "rodomontade" is "a vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech. Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Athawes, July 31, 1731
- The capsule contains microfilms of the results of a questionnaire that Denes had conducted around the world in the course of her university appearances.
- She spent weeks hunkered under a microfilm reader, poring over six months of newspapers.
- The paper records were microfilmed to save storage space.