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Microform
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.
Microform
(n.)
A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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A generic term for any form, whether film, videotape, paper or other medium, containing miniaturized or otherwise compressed images which cannot be read without special display devices. 1/6/81
microformat
Terme générique désignant tout support qu'il s'agisse de film, de bande vidéo, de papier ou d'autres supports, contenant des images miniaturisées ou réduites par d'autres procédés, qui ne peuvent être lues sans dispositifs spéciaux de visualisation. 1/6/81
Microform
Microforms are photographic images that are 20 to 150 times smaller than the original" (Balough 1993:17). It is generally produced on film that has a life expectancy of 500 years, commonly called microfilm.
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