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microfilming

microfilming is the present participle and gerund 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 microfilming

What is microfilming the present participle and gerund of?
Microfilming is the present participle and gerund of microfilm.

Words near microfilming in the dictionary

  1. microfilm
  2. microfilmable
  3. microfilmed
  4. microfilmer
  5. microfilmers
  6. microfilming
  7. microfilms
  8. microfilter
  9. microfiltered
  10. microfilterfuge
  11. microfilterfuges

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