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microliterature en · NOUN

Etymology

From micro- + literature.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A body of short articles and publications, each containing only a little new information.
    • By a systematic scanning of microliterature, a list of these can be made. 1961, Allen Kent, editor, Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, page 1045:
    • There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers. 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
    • Finally, there is a microliterature on transfers (see Cox 1987 and Kotlikoff 1988 for summaries) that appears, on balance, to reject the altruism model. 2001, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, “Intergenerational Altruism”, in Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning, page 181:

Antonyms

macroliterature