Meaning & use
microfilm
A strip of film containing greatly reduced photographic images of documents, used for storage.
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The librarian retrieved the decades-old newspaper article from a roll of microfilm.
Before digital scanning existed, many archives preserved their records on microfilm.
A note on using this word
Microfilm was a standard archival technology before digital scanning became widespread and affordable.
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