ALL meanings of macro
mac·ro
M m - noun macro Large-scale; overall. 1
- noun macro photography: close-up lens 1
- adjective macro lens, shot: close-up 1
- adjective macro large-scale 1
- adjective macro very large in scale, scope, or capability. 1
- adjective macro of or relating to macroeconomics. 1
- noun plural macro anything very large in scale, scope, or capability. 1
- noun plural macro Photography. a macro lens. 1
- noun plural macro Also called macroinstruction. Computers. an instruction that represents a sequence of instructions in abbreviated form. 1
- abbreviation MACRO macroeconomics. 1
- noun Technical meaning of macro A name (possibly followed by a formal argument list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of actual arguments) by a macro expander. The term "macro" originated in early assemblers, which encouraged the use of macros as a structuring and information-hiding device. During the early 1970s, macro assemblers became ubiquitous, and sometimes quite as powerful and expensive as HLLs, only to fall from favour as improving compiler technology marginalised assembly language programming (see languages of choice). Nowadays the term is most often used in connection with the C preprocessor, Lisp, or one of several special-purpose languages built around a macro-expansion facility (such as TeX or Unix's troff suite). Indeed, the meaning has drifted enough that the collective "macros" is now sometimes used for code in any special-purpose application control language (whether or not the language is actually translated by text expansion), and for macro-like entities such as the "keyboard macros" supported in some text editors (and PC TSRs or Macintosh INIT/CDEV keyboard enhancers). 1
- adjective macro You use macro to indicate that something relates to a general area, rather than being detailed or specific. 0
- adjective macro In photography and film, macro lenses and other devices are used for photographing or filming things at very close range. 0
- countable noun macro A macro is a shortened version of a computer command which makes the computer carry out a set of actions. 0
- noun macro a macro lens 0
- noun macro a single computer instruction that initiates a set of instructions to perform a specific task 0
- noun macro a single computer instruction that represents a given sequence of instructions; macroinstruction 0
- adjective macro broad, general, or comprehensive in coverage, outlook, etc. or large in scale, effect, etc. 0
- abbreviation MACRO macrobiotic 0
- abbreviation MACRO macroeconomic 0