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Microforms are any forms, either films or paper, containing microreproductions of documents for transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about one twenty-fifth of the original document size. For special purposes, greater optical reductions may be used. All microform images may be provided as positives ...
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• (n.) A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.
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any process, photographic or electronic, for reproducing printed matter or other graphic material in a much-reduced size, which can then be ... [1 related articles]
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General term for any film (or paper) format containing micro-images.
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Mi'cro·form noun [
Micro- +
form , noun ]
(Biol.) A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism of microscopic size.
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The generic name for any photographic process or film format which contains micro-images, e.g. microfiche and microfilm
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Generic name for media on which text or images are photographically reduced. The main examples are microfilm (similar to the film in an ordinary camera) and microfiche (flat sheets of film, generally 105 mm/4 in × 148 mm/6 in, holding the equivalent of 420 standard pages). Microform has the advantage of low reproduction and storage cos...
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