microliterature
English
Etymology
micro- + literature
Noun
microliterature (uncountable)
- A body of short articles and publications, each containing only a little new information.
- 1961, Allen Kent (ed.), Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, page 1045
- By a systematic scanning of microliterature, a list of these can be made.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:
- 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.
- 2001, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, "Intergenerational Altruism", Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning, page 181
- Finally, there is a microliterature on transfers (see Cox 1987 and Kotlikoff 1988 for summaries) that appears, on balance, to reject the altruism model.
- 1961, Allen Kent (ed.), Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, page 1045
Antonyms
- macroliterature
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