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microfiche

[ mahy-kruh-feesh ]

noun

plural microfiche, microfiches.
  1. a flat sheet of microfilm in a form suitable for filing, typically measuring 4 by 6 inches (10 by 15 centimeters) and containing microreproductions, as of printed or graphic matter, in a grid pattern.


verb (used with object)

microfiched, microfiching.
  1. to enter or record on a microfiche:

    The correspondence was microfiched for easy storage.

microfiche

/ ˈ³¾²¹Éª°ì°ùəʊˌ´Ú¾±Ëʃ /

noun

  1. 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 tofiche See also ultrafiche
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of microfiche1

First recorded in 1945–50; micro- + French fiche “small cardâ€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of microfiche1

C20: from French, from micro- + fiche small card, from Old French fichier to fix
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Griggs used microfiche copies of The Facts newspaper to pin down The Gallery’s address and dates of operation.

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Your grocery store would be entirely shrouded in microfiche.

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Decades of police records stored as microfiche were transcribed into three, hefty logbooks for detectives to painstakingly examine.

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Yet although she conducts ample historical research, combing through census records and newspaper microfiche, she isn’t comfortable conjuring the setting and conditions of Hudgins’s life.

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I eventually found an Orthodox Jewish ophthalmologist who shared his idea for a thriller where the microfiche was hidden in the Hasidic spy's eye.

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