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fiche

card, slip of paper

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A single translucent microfiche sheet with a regular grid of tiny photographed document pages, one portion enlarged through a magnifying glass to make the stored records recognizable.
noun

fiche

FISH/fɪʃ/

A flat sheet of microfilm holding miniature images of documents.

Etymology
ficheFrenchcard, slip of paper

French fiche means a card or slip of paper. In the film sense, fiche shortens microfiche, applying that card-like idea to a flat sheet holding miniature document images.

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