mi·cro·fiche (m  kr -f sh )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. [French : Greek m kro-, micro- + French fiche, peg, slip of paper, index card (from Old French, peg, from fichier, to drive in, fasten, from Vulgar Latin *fgic re, from Latin fgere; see dhgw- in Indo-European roots).] |
microfiche [ˈmaɪkrəʊˌfiːʃ]
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(Miscellaneous Technologies / 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
[from French, from micro- + fiche small card, from Old French fichier to fix]
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| Noun | 1. | microfiche - small sheet of microfilm on which many pages of material have been photographed; a magnification system is used to read the material microfilm - 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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