macro-

Prefix large. Opposite of micro-. In the mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example, medical people) this competes with the prefix mega-, but hackers tend to restrict the latter to quantification.

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Nearby terms:

MacPPPMACROmacromacro-macrologyMacromediamacro preprocessor

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