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Definition of "microdot" []

  • A copy or photograph that has been reduced to an extremely small size for ease of transport and purposes of security. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "microdot" in a sentence
  • "Livescribe's smartpens write on a special kind of microdot paper that enables an infrared camera at the tip of the pen to track everything the user writes."
  • "And it was particularly odd when that role was assumed by the leaders of Singapore, a microdot of a city-state with a population of just five million."
  • "It turned out that there had been a big gathering of the Angels at the tree houses and someone had “lost” forty hits of purple microdot LSD."