Macro (or MACRO) may refer to:
Science and technology
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Macroscopic
The macroscopic scale is the length scale on which objects or phenomena are large enough to be visible with the naked eye, without magnifying optical instruments. It is the opposite of microscopic.
Overview
When applied to physical phenomena an ...
, subjects visible to the eye
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Macro photography
Macro photography (or photomacrography or macrography, and sometimes macrophotography) is extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects and living organisms like insects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is grea ...
, a type of close-up photography
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Image macro
An image macro is a piece of digital media featuring a picture, or artwork, with some form of text superimposed. The text frequently appears at the top and bottom of the image. Image macros are one of the most common forms of internet memes, an ...
, a picture with text superimposed
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Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory MACRO (Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory) was a particle physics experiment located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Abruzzo, Italy. MACRO was proposed by 6 scientific institutions in the United States and 6 Italian ins ...
(MACRO), a particle physics experiment
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Macronutrients
A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow, and reproduce. The requirement for dietary nutrient intake applies to animals, plants, fungi, and protists. Nutrients can be incorporated into cells for metabolic purposes or excret ...
, classes of chemical compounds humans consume in the largest quantities (i.e., proteins, fats, and carbohydrates)
Sociology
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Macrosociology
Macrosociology is a large-scale approach to sociology, emphasizing the analysis of social systems and populations at the structural level, often at a necessarily high level of theoretical abstraction. Though macrosociology ''does'' concern itself ...
, sociology at the national level
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Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix ''makro-'' meaning "large" + ''economics'') is a branch of economics dealing with performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole.
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, economics at a higher level, above individual markets
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Macromanagement in business, the idea of "managing from afar"
Computing
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Macro (computer science)
In computer programming, a macro (short for "macro instruction"; ) is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input should be mapped to a replacement output. Applying a macro to an input is known as macro expansion. The input and output ...
, a set of instructions that is represented in an abbreviated format
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Macro instruction
In computer programming, a macro (short for "macro instruction"; ) is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input should be mapped to a replacement output. Applying a macro to an input is known as macro expansion. The input and output ...
, a statement, typically for an assembler, that invokes a macro definition to generate a sequence of instructions or other outputs
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Macro key, a key found on some keyboards, particularly older keyboards.
Media and entertainment
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Macromanagement (gameplay)
Real-time strategy (RTS) is a subgenre of strategy video games that do not progress incrementally in turns, but allow all players to play simultaneously, in "real time". By contrast, in turn-based strategy (TBS) games, players take turns to pla ...
, high-level decision making in games
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Macro Recordings
Stefan Goldmann (born 1978) is a German-Bulgarian DJ and composer of electronic music. His work has been described as intelligent minimal techno. Rob Young: “Stefan Goldmann – Close to the edit”, WIRE Magazine, #314, April 2010
Career
Sin ...
, a German electronic music label
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Macro analysis of chords and chord progressions
Other uses
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Macro practice Community practice also known as macro practice or community work is a branch of social work in the United States that focuses on larger social systems and social change, and is tied to the historical roots of United States social work.Gibelman, M. ...
or community practice, a type of social work
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Macrobiotics
A macrobiotic diet (or macrobiotics) is a fad diet based on ideas about types of food drawn from Zen Buddhism. The diet tries to balance the supposed yin and yang elements of food and cookware. Major principles of macrobiotic diets are to reduce ...
, a diet and lifestyle based on eating natural, organic food
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Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, it, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, italic=no, usually known as MACRO, is a municipal contemporary art museum in Rome, Italy. The museum is housed in two separate places: a former brewery in Via Nizza, ...
(MACRO), Italy
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Cox Macro
Cox Macro (1686 – 2 February 1767) was an Anglican priest, and antiquarian. He accumulated a lerge collection of antiquities at his home, Little Haugh Hall near Norton, Suffolk.
Family background
Macro was the eldest son of Thomas Macro, groc ...
(1686–1767), English Anglican priest and antiquarian
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Naevius Sutorius Macro
Quintus Naevius Cordus Sutorius Macro (21 BC – AD 38) was a prefect of the Praetorian Guard, from 31 until 38, serving under the Roman Emperors Tiberius and Caligula. Upon falling out of favour, he killed himself.
Biography
Macro was born in ...
(21 BC – 38 AD), praetorian prefect in the Roman Empire
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Makro
Makro is a Dutch international brand of warehouse clubs, also called cash and carry stores. Makro was founded by SHV Holdings, a Dutch conglomerate based in Utrecht in partnership with German company Metro AG, with the first warehouse club ...
, a retail brand
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Micro (disambiguation)
Micro may refer to:
Measurement
* micro- (μ), a metric prefix denoting a factor of 10−6
Places
* Micro, North Carolina, town in U.S.
People
* DJ Micro, (born Michael Marsicano) an American trance DJ and producer
*Chii Tomiya (都宮 ちい ...
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Mikro (disambiguation)
Mikro may refer to:
* Mikro (author), pseudonym of South African author Christoffel Hermanus Kühn (1903–1968)
* Mikro (Greek band), a Greek electronic music group formed in 1998
* ''Mikro'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails
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Large (disambiguation) (''macro'': a Greek prefix meaning long or large)
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List of commonly used taxonomic affixes
This is a list of common affixes used when scientifically naming species, particularly extinct species for whom only their scientific names are used, along with their derivations.
*a-, an-: ''Pronunciation'': /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/. ''Origin'' ...
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