Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An arrangement of images reduced in size, as on microfilm or microfiche.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A microscopic organism, or one that is too small to be studied without a microscope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism of microscopic size.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
microfilm ,microfiche or similar materials - noun biology A
microscopic form of life; ananimal orvegetable organism of microscopic size.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is known as a microform cleft, a mild form of a cleft lip.
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Some have been copied to other media, such as microform, for preservation.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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I'm ignoring the role of formats such as microform here because they are, for the most part, a medium that is more identical to print than it isn't.
Disruptive Library Technology Jester Peter Murray 2010
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He had discussed his microform housing needs with Ring King Visibles.
Style in Fiction 2009
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Page after page the microform reader revealed the deaths of achingly young infants: Sara, age one month, eight days; Janet, age one month; Francis, age one month, 22 days; and tiny baby Edward, age only 22 days.
Edward P. Kohn: "We're Having a Heat Wave" Edward P. Kohn 2010
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Acting charades, or, Deeds not words [microform]: A Christmas game to make a long evening short by Augustus Mayhew
The Beggars 2009
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The principal surrogate format is microform (film and fiche) and there are currently over 21,000 records in the database.
November 2007 2007
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Undiscovered oil and gas in the Big Cypress National Preserve [microform]: a total petroleum system assessment of the South Florida basin, Florida (SuDoc I 19.76: 00-317) by Richard M. Pollastro
"Drill (Me), Baby, Drill (Me)" Sex, Drugs, Big Oil Scandal 2008
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Josie Tackett, hangings, murders and superstitions [microform] (The Appalachian oral history project) by Josie Tackett
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Albino Africans live in fear after witch-doctor butchery and Cannibalism 2008
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Requesters outside the US Government not interested in subscription service may purchase specific publications either in paper copy or microform from:
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