please don’t use micro-*. This could be useful.

Perhaps consider the origin of “meme”, which Richard Dawkins coined because it’s similar to “gene” and taken from the greek “mimeme” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Where does a similar phenomenon occur in nature that you can take and change a word from?

Good luck

Reading Jack’s comment and seeing the word ‘gestalt’, I wondered if we could do a play on words… and saw salt.

Salt enhances flavor, often improving the taste of something. Salt is also useful in helping boil water, or make ice cream. We don’t eat salt by itself (at least I don’t). It always has to be coupled with something else. And even then, its still a minor part of what we add it to.

It’s not a verb, so it’s not an act unless we “salt” something, or are in the act of salting. But it definitely adds to the large whole.

The word “gestalt” is used to denote something that is “larger than the sum of its parts”, so perhaps “adding to a gestalt” or, to create a phrase, “gestalting”?

Incromitting? (a combination of “incrementing” and “commit”)

That’s all that comes to mind for the moment.