pseudoarticle

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pseudoarticle (plural pseudoarticles)

1. A false or nonexistent article (piece of writing).
   • 1993 May 1, Harrison Cheung, “Letters: Geac and the “Marketplace””, in Library Journal, volume 118, number 8, page 10:

     Bridge’s article should be prefaced with a warning to readers to let everyone know that data he collects can be estimated, altered, and made up at the author's discretion. What is truly disappointing is that Bridge's pseudoarticle might be interpreted by someone as real news—a real snapshot of the automation industry.

   • 2019, Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis, translated by Nicholas Elliott, Fraud in the Lab: The High Stakes of Scientific Research, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 87:

     Of the 750,000 internauts who have played the game, only 59 percent have succeeded in identifying authentic papers. Proof that these pseudoarticles can occasionally fool the most well-informed specialists.

2. (zoology) A joint-like constriction that does not articulate.
   • 2014 August 1, Ana Caroline O. Vasconcelos, Alessandro P. L. Giupponi, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, “A new species of Charinus from Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with comments on its sexual dimorphism (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae)”, in The Journal of Arachnology, volume 42, number 2, →DOI, page 159:

     Leg I: Tibia with 23 articles and tarsus (basitarsus+distitarsus) with 41 articles. Leg IV (Fig. 13): Basitibia with 4 pseudoarticles and 1 medial trichobothrium on the last article. Distitibia with 3 basal and 15 distal trichobothria; frontal and caudal series with 6 trichobothria each.

   • 2016 February 18, Alessandro Ponce de Leão Giupponi, Gustavo Silva de Miranda, “Eight New Species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) Endemic for the Brazilian Amazon, with Notes on Their Conservational Status”, in PLOS One, volume 11, number 2, →DOI, page 1:

     All new species can be differentiated from the other species of the genus by the number of pseudo-articles in basitibia IV, the presence/absence of median eyes, and the shape of the female gonopod.

3. (linguistics) A morpheme that takes the form of an article despite not being one.
   • 2015, Michael Carasik, editor, The Commentators' Bible: The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot, volume 5: Deuteronomy, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, Jewish Publication Society, →ISBN, page 50:

     The Hebrew has the vowel indicating the definite article, so it would literally seem to be saying, “at the test.” But Exod. 17:7 tells us clearly that “the place was named Massah.” We do indeed find this pseudoarticle occasionally in place names: “Now Zebah and Zalmunna were at Karkor” (Judg. 8:10);