Macro Definition

măkrō
macros
adjective
Broad, general, or comprehensive in coverage, outlook, etc. or large in scale, effect, etc.
Macro issues bringing together disparate factions.
Webster's New World
Of great size; large.
American Heritage
Macrobiotic.
Webster's New World
Large in scope or extent; large-scale.
A macro analysis of many reports.
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Macroeconomic.
Webster's New World
noun
macros
A single computer instruction that represents a given sequence of instructions; macroinstruction.
Webster's New World
A shorthand representation for a number of lines of code.
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(programming, computing) A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complicated input to a computer program.

The pre-processor expands any embedded macros into source code before it is compiled.
Wiktionary
(photography) Macro lens.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • macro instruction
prefix
Large.
Macronucleus.
American Heritage
Wiktionary
Inclusive.
Macroinstruction.
American Heritage
Wiktionary
affix
Long (in extent or duration), large, enlarged or elongated (in a specified part)
Macrocyte, macrocephaly.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Macro

Noun

Singular:
macro
Plural:
macros

Origin of Macro

  • 1933, from macro-, from French, from Latin, from Ancient Greek μακρός (makros, “long").

    From Wiktionary

  • 1971, elliptical form of macro lens, from macro- + lens. Compare macrophotography.

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek makro- from makros large māk- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French, from Latin, from Ancient Greek μακρός (makros, “long").

    From Wiktionary

  • 1959, shortened form of macroinstruction.

    From Wiktionary

  • Short for macroinstruction

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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