Meaning of microcategory | Babel Free

Definitions

A category that is a subset of a larger category (the macrocategory), especially one that has very few members.

Examples

“The procedure consists of microcategory detection, and feature matching to detect macrocategories.”

“In this dynamic, interrelated microcategory problems, such as prostitution and violence against women, are recognized as manifestations of macrocategory problems such as poverty and human rights.”

“Because such elements of conceptual information as (COUNTRY-BORN) and (CULTIVATING LAND) seem to be epistemologically central to the conceptual microcategory MAN OF THE COUNTRY, the semantics of such lexical categories as bumpkin, yokel, hick and dirt farmer allows us to relate the categories to a more marginal position in MAN OF THE COUNTRY; someone referred to as bumpkin, yokel, hick and dirt farmer is, by the same token, a less representative example of the category MAN OF THE COUNTRY than someone referred to as farmer, rustic, or peasant.”

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