mi·cro·film
ˈmī-krə-ˌfilm 
: a film bearing a photographic record on a reduced scale of printed or other graphic matter
Examples of microfilm in a Sentence
Noun
studying newspaper microfilms from the early 1900s
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Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
And since those early editions of The Times weren’t scanned onto microfilm, some of the news featured on those pages was not preserved.
—John Otis, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Nicole Dungca, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
His team quickly microfilmed the material and sent it to the front, where Allied artillery units could immediately use it to improve their targeting.
—Greg Miller, Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2019
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Noun
To determine what must be disclosed, county staff would have had to examine 700 million images, microfilm negatives and electronic databases, said sheriff’s spokesperson Tony Botti.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
And since those early editions of The Times weren’t scanned onto microfilm, some of the news featured on those pages was not preserved.
—John Otis, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
Most of the files have been microfilmed and converted to PDFs, though the original paperwork remains available for inspection.
—Nicole Dungca, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
His team quickly microfilmed the material and sent it to the front, where Allied artillery units could immediately use it to improve their targeting.
—Greg Miller, Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2019
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“Microfilm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microfilm. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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