microfiche

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But sometimes the information we most need is really hidden and sometimes hard to use -- microfiche anyone?

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  1. noun A card or sheet of microfilm capable of accommodating and preserving a considerable number of pages, as of printed text, in reduced form.

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  • Most of these are on microfiche, taken from a financial institution or other source that has a quantity of numbers. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 13 -- Techniques to Hide One's Identity
  • This is because using microfiche-based numbers is in itself a risk. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 13 -- Techniques to Hide One's Identity
  • He was in the stacks of books in the costume exhibit hall, which separated him from the microfiche-reader tables. —  The Twelfth Card
  • Photocopies of old clips, printouts from microfiche, the computerized printouts of a Nexis search, which scanned a national data base of newspapers. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
  • At the newspaper's offices, I bypassed my desk and went straight to the library—formerly the morgue—where back issues of the Star Republic were kept, some on newsprint, some on microfiche, and some on disk. —  EQMM,June2008
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  1. 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; see dhīgw- in Indo-European roots).
 

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