Definition of "macro" in English

adjective

1. Very large in scope or scale.

2. (cooking, colloquial) Clipping of macrobiotic.

noun

1. (colloquial, nutrition, countable, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of macronutrient.

2. (colloquial, economics, uncountable) Clipping of macroeconomics.

3. (colloquial, photography, countable) Ellipsis of macro lens.

4. (colloquial, countable) Clipping of macrophile.

noun

1. (programming) 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.

verb

1. (intransitive) To use a macro.

2. (transitive) To use a macro on (something).

noun

1. (gaming) Short for macromanagement.