Word.ws English Dictionary

microfilm

microfilm noun: a continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size.

microfilm: a continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size
Image: Ianaré Sévi for Lorien Technologies, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

microfilm (countable and uncountable, plural microfilms)

  1. A 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

Verb

microfilm (third-person singular simple present microfilms, present participle microfilming, simple past and past participle microfilmed)

  1. (transitive) To 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

microfilm meaning in Tamil, Indonesian and Vietnamese

microfilm in Tamil

நுண்ணிழைப் படலம் நுண்ணிழைப்படம், நுண்படத் தகடு, நுண்படலம்

microfilm in Indonesian

roll of film
mikrofilm

microfilm in Vietnamese

roll of film
vi phim

Forms of microfilm

Noun
pluralmicrofilms
Verb
third-person singular presentmicrofilms
present participlemicrofilming
past participlemicrofilmed
pastmicrofilmed

Plural of microfilm: microfilms

Origin of microfilm

From micro- + film.

Words formed from microfilm

Questions about microfilm

What does microfilm mean?
Microfilm means a continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size.
What is microfilm in Tamil?
Microfilm in Tamil is நுண்ணிழைப் படலம் நுண்ணிழைப்படம், நுண்படத் தகடு, நுண்படலம். See Microfilm meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is microfilm?
Microfilm can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of microfilm?
The plural of microfilm is microfilms.

Words near microfilm in the dictionary

  1. microfilaridermic
  2. microfill
  3. microfilled
  4. microfilling
  5. microfills
  6. microfilm
  7. microfilmable
  8. microfilmed
  9. microfilmer
  10. microfilmers
  11. microfilming

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: microfilm (page history and authors); microfilm (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-microfilm.wav.

Cite this entry: “microfilm.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/microfilm. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.