microfilm
noun/ˈmaɪkroʊˌfɪlm/
Frequency rank: #16,985 most common English word
Meaning
a length of film on which printed material is photographed in greatly reduced size for storage or reference.
Example sentence
The librarian used microfilm to preserve old newspaper records that would otherwise take up too much space.
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