macro adj : very large in scale or scope or capability; "`macro' in the word `macroscopic' is a combining form" n : a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language [syn: macro instruction]

English

Adjective

macro

1. very large in scope or scale

Translations

• Telugu: స్థూల (sthoola)

Noun

1. An abstraction whereby a certain textual pattern is replaced according to a defined set of rules.
2. A specific textual replacement pattern taken in the context of a specific set of replacement rules; a macro name and associated macro body.
3. The name and formal argument list which comprises a macro pattern; a macro name.
4. An occurrence of text matching a macro name in the target of a macro expansion.
5. Any substitution of a collection of actions for a single action.

See also

• macro expansion
• template

Macro may refer to:

• Macro (computer science) (for macroinstruction), a computer science term for a set of instructions that is represented in an abbreviated format.
• Macro photography, a type of close-up photography
• image macro, a picture with text superimposed
• macroscopic, subjects visible to the eye
• Macro practice or community practice, a type of social work
• macromanagement, a concept in real-time strategy computer games
• Macro (protagonist), one of the main protagonists in the Eagle Series, by Simon Scarrow
• The Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory, a particle physics experiment
• macroeconomics, economics from the national level
• macrosociology, as above but for the sociology

People

• Naevius Sutorius Macro, the Ancient Roman praetorian prefect