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('krō-fēsh') pronunciation
n., pl., microfiche, or -fich·es.
A card or sheet of microfilm capable of accommodating and preserving a considerable number of pages, as of printed text, in reduced form.

[French : Greek mīkro-, micro- + French fiche, peg, slip of paper, index card (from Old French, peg , from fichier, to drive in, fasten , from Vulgar Latin *fīgicāre , from Latin fīgere).]


Pronounced "micro-feesh." A 4x6" sheet of film that holds several hundred miniaturized document pages. See micrographics.

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hard-copy printout of a microfilm galley. Microfiche must be read with a special magnifying screen. It is frequently used to store customer file data and/or to duplicate customer files so that copies can be distributed to customer-service clerks.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - mikrofiche
v. tr. - overføre til mikrofiche

Nederlands (Dutch)
microfiche

Français (French)
n. - microfiche
v. tr. - entrer/enregistrer (qch) sur une micro-fiche

Deutsch (German)
n. - Mikrofiche
v. - eine Mikrofiche machen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μικροφίσα

Italiano (Italian)
microscheda

Português (Portuguese)
n. - microficha (f) (Comp.)

Русский (Russian)
микрофиша

Español (Spanish)
n. - microficha
v. tr. - archivar en microficha

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - mikrofiche

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
单片缩影胶片, 使用单片缩影胶片

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 單片縮影膠片
v. tr. - 使用單片縮影膠片

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 마이크로 필름 시트
v. tr. - 마이크로 필름으로 만들다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - マイクロフィッシュ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) صورة وئائق مصغرة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גיליון תצלומים זעירים, מיקרופיש‬
v. tr. - ‮צילם על מיקרופיש‬


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