micromanipulation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subtly manipulative act; An interpersonal ploy to influence others without the direct use of power.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Micromanipulations are performed in a Petri dish chamber."
- "From then on complete micromanipulation by light was possible with one single piece of equipment. The last decade of this millenium^([sic]) is now witnessing a dramatic expansion of the field."
- "The first studies on combined micromanipulation of oocytes and embryos appeared around 100 years later."
- "Moreover, some examples of ex vivo micromanipulation in the physiological environment are reported in the literature—for example, the micro-scale compression of hydrogel microcapsules [15] or the micromanipulation of a micro blood vessel and a cyanobacteria cell [16]."
- "Links with concretism are evident in the geometry of the song and in the micromanipulations of words, splits, and pairings, which multiply their suggestions."
- "Finally, I articulated my plan. I would make silly minor adjustments—removing an extra space in between sentences, abbreviating the journal titles, abbreviating a name where it was actually spelled out, rewording something ever so slightly—rather than try to rewrite the paper, which at that point was indeed impossible. […] They barely noticed the micromanipulations."
Etymology
From micro- + manipulation.