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microliterature

noun

Etymology

From micro- + literature.

  1. derived from διφθέρᾱ
  2. derived from literatura
  3. derived from littérature
  4. inherited from literature
  5. prefixed as microliterature — “micro + literature”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • 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.
    • Finally, there is a microliterature on transfers (see Cox 1987 and Kotlikoff 1988 for summaries) that appears, on balance, to reject the altruism model.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microliterature. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA