MICROFILM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microfilm mean? 

• MICROFILM (noun)
  The noun MICROFILM has 1 sense:

1. film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material

  Familiarity information: MICROFILM used as a noun is very rare.

• MICROFILM (verb)
  The verb MICROFILM has 1 sense:

1. record on microfilm

  Familiarity information: MICROFILM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICROFILM (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)

• MICROFILM (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)