microformal
English
adj
Definitions
- (music) Pertaining to the internal structure of a single phrase.
- (literature) Pertaining to the characteristics and patterns of lines or phrases, as opposed to the structure of the entire work.
- (more generally) Involving structure on a localized, small scale.
- Having a miniaturized form.
- (chemistry) Involving substances in which extremely small volumes are involved (such as antibiotics, antibodies or viruses).
- (maths) "Thickened" using formal canonical relations between the cotangent bundles of smooth manifolds.
Etymology
Prefix from English formal.
Origin
English
formal
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- formal English
- formalish English
- formalism English
- formalist English
- formality English
- formalization English
- formalize English
- formally English
- formalness English
- formalwear English
- hyperformal English
- informal English
- nonformal English
- overformal English
- postformal English
- pseudoformal English
- semiformal English
- unformal English
- formalis Latin
- formel Middle English
- פורמלי Hebrew (modern)