microformal

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Pertaining to the internal structure of a single phrase.

   • For example, the note values and tonality of a phrase cannot be chosen independently of those of the other phrases; and similar restirctions apply also for many other microformal characteristics.
2. 2

   Pertaining to the characteristics and patterns of lines or phrases, as opposed to the…

   Pertaining to the characteristics and patterns of lines or phrases, as opposed to the structure of the entire work.

   • Shakespeare's microformal analysis is the commensurate response to a world of forms emerging into and out of relation.
   • Each of these pieces deals with the microformal elements of the text in ways that underpin my larger, structural argument about the imaginative effect of the text.
3. 3

   Involving structure on a localized, small scale.

   • Both microformal and mesoformal deformations of the bed are considered in the analytical study.
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   1. 4

      Having a miniaturized form.

      • Respectful of its microformal origins, it is distributed with a microfiche that duplicates the printed version but sometimes contains additional material.
      • It cannot be the function of a textbook collection to be a kind of microformal university library.
      • Holdings include 75,000 documents in medical socioeconomics (the SEAM data base of world literature since 1962; updated monthly); a complete file of AMA serial publications in microformal and bound volumes;
   2. 5

      Involving substances in which extremely small volumes are involved (such as antibiotics,…

      Involving substances in which extremely small volumes are involved (such as antibiotics, antibodies or viruses).

      • Hydrolysis of the substrate was measured by a microformal titration, by using 0.05N sodium hydroxide, a manostat microtitrator, and a Beckman Zeromatic pH meter to determine the micromoles of acid liberated in a given time.
      • Assay of C1 esterase involves microformal titration of the acid liberated from ATEe (a stock concentration of 1.6 M in 2-methoxy-ethanol) during 15-min incubation at 37C according to the method of Levy and Lepow (11).
      • Microformal titration was carried out as described by Levy and Lepow (1959).
   3. 6

      "Thickened" using formal canonical relations between the cotangent bundles of smooth…

      "Thickened" using formal canonical relations between the cotangent bundles of smooth manifolds.

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