microfiche
5
9.9
- noun
- /ˈmaɪkrəˌfiːʃ/
- Archaic
:
microficha
- This is a microfiche of your school newspaper.
- available on microfiche
- microfiche copy
- microfiche files
And she also, if I'm remembering correctly, looks at old microfiche newspapers and sort of excavates and translates.
- And she also, if I'm remembering correctly, looks at old microfiche newspapers and sort of excavates and translates.
- Well, you had these big books and microfiche that you could look through the, I forget, was a reader's guide perhaps, or something like that.
- They're they're, they're microfilm microfiche, they call it.
Examples
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The extensive Oral History interviews of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, are available on microfiche from University Publications.
Academic text (1992) -
Ace and Melissa look through Finkle's file on a microfiche screen.
Fiction book (1994) -
But maybe it's on microfiche, which is down the hall and to the left.
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James had gone to the library and looked at the microfiche to check the movie ads in the paper that week.
Fiction book (1994) -
The newspaper is on microfiche, and it's projected on a large screen before him.
Fiction book (1992) -
A man using the microfiche reader next to me looked up, affronted.
Fiction book (1990) -
The researcher secured and analyzed university transcripts and microfiche copies of the community college records for these students.
Academic text (1995) -
ERIC documents (citations identified by an ED number) are available in microfiche form at libraries or other institutions housing ERIC Resource Collections worldwide.
Academic text (2004) -
The U.S. Census Bureau has reproduced all existing census returns on microfilm or microfiche and has distributed them widely throughout the country.
Academic text (1993) -
When I was growing up, doing research meant spending hours going through microfiche at the library.
Synonyms
1
9.8
A small sheet of film used in a machine to show old records
1
8.2
A very small photo copy of documents that you read with special machines to save space
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Morphology
Etymology
The word microfiche comes from micro- meaning 'small', as in microphone, and the French word fiche meaning 'card'. So a microfiche is literally a 'small card' that holds tiny photos of documents you read with a special machine to save space.