microformal

Adjective

microformal (not comparable)

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.1984, Mario Baroni, Laura Callegari Hill, Musical grammars and computer analysis, page 209
   • However, the results of the research do implicitly show how musical form reflects and implies some of these mental devices. In the first two repertories examined, the rules have been divided into two categories: macroformal and microformal rules.1989, Stephen McAdams, Irène Deliège, Music and the Cognitive Sciences, →ISBN
2. Pertaining to the characteristics and patterns of lines or phrases, as opposed to the structure of the entire work.
   • Other microformal characteristics also mark these traditional, oral tales, such as the absence of the necessary enjambment — the basic element is the line or the hemistich, as also in the romancero -- and what Parry calls the thrift of formulaic art ("each position in the verse tends to allow one...1993, Claudio Guillén, The challenge of comparative literature - Volume 42, page 174
   • Shakespeare's microformal analysis is the commensurate response to a world of forms emerging into and out of relation.2010, Michael Carl Schoenfeldt, Michael Schoenfeldt, A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, →ISBN, page 254
3. (broadly) Involving structure on a localized, small scale.
   • Both microformal and mesoformal deformations of the bed are considered in the analytical study.1966, Water Power - Volume 18, page 114
   • A program of excavation in commoner house groups was selected with the intention of recovering a representative sample of diagnostic ceramics, which would be subjected to a fine-grained microformal analysis as well as a battery of standard tests and classification.1999, Lauren Rebecca Herckis, Cultural Variation in the Maya City of Palenque (Doctoral dissertation, Anthropology. University of Michigan), page 8
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.1982, Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference - Volume 20, page 90
   • It cannot be the function of a textbook collection to be a kind of microformal university library.1987, The Ligue, Bulletin - Volumes 29-31, page 49
5. 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.1965 November-December, Kenneth L. Burdon, Jose T. Queng, Orville C. Thomas, John P. McGovern, “Observations on biochemical abnormalities in hereditary angioneurotic edema”, in Journal of Allergy...
   • 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).1973, Paul J. Edelson, Immunologic Deficiency Syndrome: Papers, →ISBN, page 158
6. "Thickened" using formal canonical relations between the cotangent bundles of smooth manifolds.
   • They act on oscillatory wave functions, whose algebra extends the algebra of formal power series in Planck's constant. In the classical limit, quantum microformal morphisms reproduce, as the main term of the asymptotic, the nonlinear pullbacks of functions with respect to `classical' microformal...2015, Theodore Voronov, “Quantum microformal morphisms of supermanifolds: an explicit formula and further properties”, in arXiv