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microliterature

microliterature noun: a body of short articles and publications, each containing only a little new information.

Noun

microliterature (uncountable)

  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.1961, Allen Kent, editor, Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, page 1045
    • 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.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii

Antonyms of microliterature

  • macroliterature

Origin of microliterature

From micro- + literature.

Questions about microliterature

What does microliterature mean?
Microliterature means a body of short articles and publications, each containing only a little new information.
What part of speech is microliterature?
Microliterature is a noun.

Words near microliterature in the dictionary

  1. microlipids
  2. microlissencephalies
  3. microlissencephaly
  4. microlite
  5. microliter
  6. microliterature
  7. microliters
  8. microlites
  9. microlith
  10. microlithiasis
  11. microlithic

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