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microfilmed

microfilmed is the simple past and past participle of microfilm.

Meaning of microfilm

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

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Questions about microfilmed

What is microfilmed the simple past and past participle of?
Microfilmed is the simple past and past participle of microfilm.

Words near microfilmed in the dictionary

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

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