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microsupport

microsupport noun: extremely localized structural support.

Noun

microsupport (plural microsupports)

  1. Extremely localized structural support.
    • A greater number of elements may be detected by means of a thin pyrographite or glassy carbon microsupport (cross section 0.1-0.5 mm2), which is introduced into a high-temperature flame such as acetylene/nitrous oxide.1978, American Laboratory - Volume 10, page 20
    • This structure is in contrast to asymmetric membranes in which thin salt barrier is formed during gelation and consist of the same material as the underlying microsupport.1980, Anthony Delyannis, E Delyannis, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Fresh Water from the Sea.
  2. Social support provided by small acts.
    • However, in the rural and sparsely populated areas in Sweden there is microsupport for investments not exceeding SEK 40 000.1996, Books For Life Foundation, Grameen Bank/micro-credit Ideas: Report from a Seminar, →ISBN, page 19
    • In fact, daily life consists of little besides these kinds of microsupports that bolster broader social and cultural norms and tendencies.2016, Louisa Lombard, State of Rebellion, →ISBN
  3. A closed involutive cone in the cotangent bundle of codirections in which the cohomology of the object does not propagate.
    • We show that many interesting spaces -- including all positroid strata and wild character varieties -- are moduli of constructible sheaves on a surface with microsupport in a Legendrian link.2015, Vivek Shende, David Treumann, Harold Williams, Eric Zaslow, “Cluster varieties from Legendrian knots”, in arXiv

Examples of microsupport in a sentence

  • A salient feature of the approach is the assessment of the microsupport effect at the mostly sharp toe and root notches of the welded joints according to the Neuber microstructural support hypothesis.1998, Dieter Radaj, Cetin Morris Sonsino, Fatigue Assessment of Welded Joints by Local Approaches, →ISBN, page 122:
  • The data reported here show that Dielectric spectroscopy can detect the uptake of serum proteins by the microsupport following the latter exposure to complete growth medium.2013, R. E. Spier, J. B. Griffiths, W. Berthold, Animal Cell Technology: Products of Today, Prospects for Tomorrow, →ISBN:

Forms of microsupport

pluralmicrosupports

Origin of microsupport

From micro- + support.

Questions about microsupport

What does microsupport mean?
Microsupport means extremely localized structural support.
How do you use microsupport in a sentence?
A salient feature of the approach is the assessment of the microsupport effect at the mostly sharp toe and root notches of the welded joints according to the Neuber microstructural support hypothesis.
What part of speech is microsupport?
Microsupport is a noun.
What is the plural of microsupport?
The plural of microsupport is microsupports.

Words near microsupport in the dictionary

  1. microsuction
  2. microsuede
  3. microsuedes
  4. microsummaries
  5. microsummary
  6. microsupport
  7. microsupports
  8. microsurface
  9. microsurfaces
  10. microsurge
  11. microsurgeon

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