Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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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- noun A sheet of
microfilm , six by four inches, holding several hundredreduced images ofdocument pages ; read using a microfiche reader or microfilm reader.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small sheet of microfilm on which many pages of material have been photographed; a magnification system is used to read the material
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Thousands of copyright holders, both individual authors and institutions, have given ERIC permission to scan and display older work previously available only in microfiche.
August 2007 2007
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The committee said Olympic tickets will have anticounterfeiting measures such as microfiche-text processing and radio-frequency identification tags.
China to Try Again 2008
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It’s a nicely done book, although it’s a little lacking in diagrams, but the Ron Ayers site seems to have all the "microfiche" assembly diagrams for the bike I’ll ever need.
kevynwight Diary Entry kevynwight 2005
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(Fairly big academic library full of obsessive grad students using the microfiche readers.)
Be all you can be in library science! « Awful Library Books 2010
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She reviewed microfiche of Manley's scrapbook, looked at articles from the time, viewed photos.
Holly Cara Price: She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story by Audrey Vernick Holly Cara Price 2011
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The microfiche machines are Korean War-era and break down constantly.
What you said Post 2011
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The microfiche machines are Korean War-era and break down constantly.
What you said Post 2011
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My library still uses microfiche for old newspapers, though I think even our reader is newer than the one in the picture.
Be all you can be in library science! « Awful Library Books 2010
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Recounting the conversation rhetorically, he asks, You going to believe your microfiche twenty feet away from you, or me, city historian, or you going to believe someone who told you?
John V. Santore: Democracy in Clinton, Iowa John V. Santore 2011
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Recounting the conversation rhetorically, he asks, You going to believe your microfiche twenty feet away from you, or me, city historian, or you going to believe someone who told you?
John V. Santore: Democracy in Clinton, Iowa John V. Santore 2011
sionnach commented on the word microfiche
one millionth of a fish
November 7, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word microfiche
Of course...
January 9, 2008