noun
- plural of ultrafiche; extremely high-reduction microfiches that can store vast amounts of information in very small spaces
Usage: technical; library science
Examples
- The library converted its entire newspaper archive to ultrafiches to save storage space.
- Researchers needed special equipment to read the ultrafiches containing historical documents.
- The company stored thousands of pages on just a few ultrafiches.
- Ultrafiches require high-powered magnification systems for viewing.
- The archive’s ultrafiches contained decades of scientific journals.
- Due to their extreme reduction ratio, ultrafiches can be difficult to read without proper equipment.