Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A copy or photograph that has been reduced to an extremely small size for ease of transport and purposes of security.
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- noun A
photographic image that has beenreduced in size to that of adot (typically around 1mm in size and circular) in order to escape detection.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security)
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Examples
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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.
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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.
Finanzportal financial.de - Aktien - Börse - Kurse - Rohstoffe 2010
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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.
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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.
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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 Gideon Rachman 2011
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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 Gideon Rachman 2011
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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 2010
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It turned out that there had been a big gathering of the Angels at the tree houses and someone had “lost” forty hits of purple microdot LSD.
Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010
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Now, "you've got this microdot of blood on your finger, put it on a strip and the strip sucks it in," giving a reading in seconds.
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Philip Smith could take a set of blueprints all the way down to a microdot if he felt so inclined.
TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009
chained_bear commented on the word microdot
With thanks to sionnach for the suggestion.
October 28, 2007
treeseed commented on the word microdot
small tablet, small pill, a dose of LSD
February 4, 2008