microrepresentation

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English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ representation.

Noun

microrepresentation (countable and uncountable, plural microrepresentations)

  1. A representation on a smaller scale.
    • 1997, Jennifer E. Turpin, Lester R. Kurtz, The Web of violence: from interpersonal to global, page 192:
      Ideally, the individual should be a microrepresentation of the macrolevel collectivity — past, present, and future.