microformal

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adjective
  1. 1

    (more generally) Involving structure on a localized, small scale.

  2. 2

    (music) Pertaining to the internal structure of a single phrase.

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    Having a miniaturized form.

  6. 6

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