- a film bearing a miniature photographic copy of printed or other graphic matter, usually of a document, newspaper or book pages, etc., made for a library, archive, or the like.
- a film, especially of motion-picture stock, on which microcopies are made.
- to make a microfilm of.
- a strip of film of standard width on which books, newspapers, documents, etc, can be recorded in miniaturized form
- to photograph (a page, document, etc) on microfilm