macrostructural
- adjective
- /ˌmækroʊˈstrʌkʧərəl/
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macroestructural
- Narrative analyses provide information on microstructural features that reflect linguistic productivity and complexity and on macrostructural organizational features, such as story grammar.
Examples
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In addition to sentence-internal microstructural analyses, narratives can be analyzed for how sentences are organized and linked into a discourse unit. These are macrostructural analyses.
Academic text (2012) -
The underlying macrostructural dynamic in individual nations and regions over the past few decades has been integration into emergent global society.
Academic text (2000) -
In fact, discerning such a macrostructural analogy is to a certain extent possible.
Academic text (2003) -
In sum, in our study, microstructural narrative productivity measures and the macrostructural measure of the number of episodic elements were shown to distinguish among three types of at-risk learners.
Academic text (2012) -
The researchers conducted a macrostructural analysis of the city's transportation system to identify key areas for improvement.
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Understanding the macrostructural elements of a novel can help readers grasp the author's overall message.
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In architecture, macrostructural design focuses on the building's layout and how different sections are interconnected.
Synonyms
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You can see without a microscope
Relating to things that are large enough to see or measure easily
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
macrostructural = structural (transparent) = macro + structure + al
The word is a straightforward prefixation of macro- to structural, and structural itself transparently relates to structure.
Etymology
The word macrostructural combines macro- meaning 'large', a part you see in macroeconomics, and structure meaning 'how something is built'. So, macrostructural describes the large-scale organization or shape of something.