microfilm

plural microfilms

1. countableuncountableA continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size.

   This detail made it easier, decades later, when I was browsing through reels of microfilms of The New York Times, to establish that morning’s date.

   2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), pages 200-201

present singular third person microfilms · participle present microfilming · participle past microfilmed · past microfilmed

1. transitiveTo reproduce (documents) on such film.

   Power set up a camera in the British Museum and eventually microfilmed many pre-1640 English books that he selected from Pollard and Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (STC) and other important works in the museum’s collections.

   1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, pages 48–49