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MICROFILM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("microfilm" is a kind of...):
film; photographic film (photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "microfilm"):
microfiche (small sheet of microfilm on which many pages of material have been photographed; a magnification system is used to read the material)
Derivation:
microfilm (record on microfilm)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Record on microfilm
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "microfilm" is one way to...):
film (record in film)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
microfilm (film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material)
