It depends on the context. On a resume, no; people are just looking for keywords and will assume you mean the more conventional sense. During the interview, y

It depends on the context. On a resume, no; people are just looking for keywords and will assume you mean the more conventional sense. During the interview, yes. "In a sense, I have worked on microservices, because I have worked on X, which, while not a conventional microservice, is similar.