microliteratureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

microliterature (uncountable)

1. A body of short articles and publications, each containing only a little new information.
   • 1961, Allen Kent (ed.), Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, page 1045

     By a systematic scanning of microliterature, a list of these can be made.

   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii

     There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (かつ evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.

   • 2001, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, "Intergenerational Altruism", Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning‎, page 181

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

反意語

• macroliterature