microfiche

The definition of a microfiche is a small, flat piece of microfilm containing small photographs or images of documents.

(noun)

An example of a microfiche is a piece of microfilm in a library with small photographs of pages of newspapers.

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See microfiche in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. microfiches or microfiche

a small sheet of microfilm on which a number of pages of microcopy can be recorded

Origin: Fr < micro-, micro- + fiche, a small card, mark on a card, orig. a pin, peg < OFr ficher, to attach: see fichu

See microfiche in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. microfiche microfiche or mi·cro·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.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: : Greek mīkro-, micro-

Origin: + 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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