Microformal

Quick meaning: Microformal is an adjective meaning (music) Pertaining to the internal structure of a single phrase.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (literature, poetry) Pertaining to the characteristics and patterns of lines or phrases, as opposed to the structure of the entire work.
2. (more generally) Involving structure on a localized, small scale.
3. Having a miniaturized form.
4. (chemistry) Involving substances in which extremely small volumes are involved (such as antibiotics, antibodies or viruses).
5. (mathematics) "Thickened" using formal canonical relations between the cotangent bundles of smooth manifolds.

Example Sentences

Each section harbours a ternary microformal pattern based upon its own thematic content.

Both microformal and mesoformal deformations of the bed are considered in the analytical study.

Shakespeare's microformal analysis is the commensurate response to a world of forms emerging into and out of relation.

Each of these pieces deals with the microformal elements of the text in ways that underpin my larger, structural argument about the imaginative effect of the text.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include figurated, micropolyphonic, monostructural, homophonic, unitemporal, unimetric.

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