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microperson en · NOUN

Etymology

From micro- + person.

Meanings

1. A minuscule person.
   • Cultural factors can be introduced on any microplot by game simulation of populations of micropeople. 1977, William R. Eblen, Ruth A. Eblen, Experiencing the total environment, page 87:
   • By making Horton the protector of a people whose existence only he could naturally hear, and by making others opposed to his protecting these invisible and inaudible people, until every last microperson spoke up as loudly and clearly as possible, Dr. Seuss had his story, his solution to the problem of encouraging democracy in Japan or elsewhere, .... 2009, Brian Boyd -, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction, page 359:
   • Turbulent flow really stirs things up; laminar flow is surprisingly ineffectual at mixing. A microperson's spoon wouldn't easily stir milk into coffee. 2000, Steven Vogel, Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People:
   • In answer to this a Micro Mayr might argue that these aggregations, although not classes, are not sufficiently like atom-sized micropersons to be called individuals; in fact, he might argue, since they are deeply important natural phenomena they represent a new ontological category" (204-205). 2003, David N. Stamos, The Species Problem:

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