"misfilm" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɪsˈfɪlm/, /ˈmɪsfɪlm/ Forms: misfilms [plural]
Etymology: From mis- + film. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|film}} mis- + film Head templates: {{en-noun}} misfilm (plural misfilms)
  1. An error that occurs when microfilming.
    Sense id: en-misfilm-en-noun-upIzoOKQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English heteronyms, English terms prefixed with mis-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 39 3 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 63 33 4 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with mis-: 52 40 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 60 36 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 65 33 2

Verb

IPA: /mɪsˈfɪlm/, /ˈmɪsfɪlm/ Forms: misfilms [present, singular, third-person], misfilming [participle, present], misfilmed [participle, past], misfilmed [past]
Etymology: From mis- + film. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|film}} mis- + film Head templates: {{en-verb}} misfilm (third-person singular simple present misfilms, present participle misfilming, simple past and past participle misfilmed)
  1. To make an error when microfilming documents.
    Sense id: en-misfilm-en-verb-QRbWV2HS
  2. To make a poor cinematic adaptation of
    Sense id: en-misfilm-en-verb-BQQkNJZp

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1979, Records Management, page 30:",
          "text": "But you must record those documents very precisely indeed, because if you happen to misfilm one of those documents, effectively it's lost for all time, because the chances of actually getting back to it must be considered almost nil.",
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        {
          "ref": "1979, United States. General Accounting Office, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, page 649:",
          "text": "III also believes that some kind of factor should have been applied in evaluating REI's benchmark results to account for possible paper jams just as III was penalized for costs associated with manually reprocessing individually misfilmed documents.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Microform Review - Volume 18, page 117:",
          "text": "The filming here appears to be consistent in terms of polarity and resolution and is typically up to Harvester's high filming standards for archival materials with no repeat filming to make up for previously misfilmed items.",
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          "ref": "1958, Books - Issues 315-326, page 146:",
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          "ref": "1985, Eugene Hammond, Informative Writing, page 159:",
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          "ref": "1979, United States. General Accounting Office, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, page 649:",
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          "ref": "1989, Microform Review - Volume 18, page 117:",
          "text": "The filming here appears to be consistent in terms of polarity and resolution and is typically up to Harvester's high filming standards for archival materials with no repeat filming to make up for previously misfilmed items.",
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