Meaning

2 senses
  1. (also, attributive, colloquial, countable)In the context of macrophilia, one who is abnormally very large.

  2. (attributive, often)A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program.

    The preprocessor expands any embedded macros into source code before it is compiled.

    Makro

    ма́кросmákros, макрокома́ндаmakrokománda

More definitions
  • a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language

Examples

5 sentences
  1. jEdit macros are written in BeanShell.

    Макроси для jEdit пишуться на BeanShell. — User55521

    ruМакросы для jEdit пишутся на BeanShell. — User55521

  2. Use macros to plan your daily nutritional needs.

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  3. Arabs is a macro-ethnicity.

  4. Yanni is an Algerian macro-economist.

  5. He took a lot of macro photographs of disgusting Canadian bugs.

    deEr fertigte viele Makroaufnahmen von abscheulichen kanadischen Insekten an. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
abbreviation of complicated input:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
abbreviation of complicated input:

Forms

plural: macros / macroes
Singularmacro
Pluralmacros / macroes

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language:macro instruction

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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