mezzo(-scale)

[Chris Waigl]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:04:01 -0500, Benjamin Zimmer typed:

> I see examples for this sense of "mezzo-" back to 2000, which is
> also when the micro-manufacturing company Mezzo Technologies
> (http://www.mezzotech.net/) was founded. "Mezzoscale" also turns up
> as a variant of the meteorological term "mesoscale". And there are
> some earlier cites for "mezzoscopic" as a variant of "mesoscopic".

Here are three similar ones, from Usenet:

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Rhythm means a lot to me: the micro rhythm of the word after word,
the mezzo rhythm of the sentence and the paragraph, the macro
rhythm of chapter after chapter.
<http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/ddf4f599cf43705b>
Jun 13, 1999
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The most important similarity is experienced on the micro, er,
personal level, rather than mezzo or macro.  A schizophrenic in
confinement could care less what forces exist beyond who aproaches
them and how.
<http://groups.google.com/group/sci.psychology.psychotherapy/msg/aea53a0e3c7b613c>
Jan 9, 1999
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Sitting on the front step, bonding with
twilight's taste, sinking deep into the
sensory cushion.  Evocative, yeah.
Macroscopic glow of the moon above echoing
mezzoscopic glow of the streetlights echoing
microscopic glow of my neighbor's cigarette.
Occasional shudder from a truck passion by
on the nearby highway or perhaps just from
the breeze.
<http://groups.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/msg/dfb2f17f14c1bdc7>
Apr 26, 1992  [not sure if this is a poem; I don't think so]
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Chris Waigl