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 ...
, 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 gre ...
, a type of close-up photography
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Image macro, a picture with text superimposed
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Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory (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 excr ...
, classes of chemical compounds humans consume in the largest quantities (i.e., proteins, fats, and carbohydrates)
Sociology
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Macrosociology, sociology at the national level
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Macroeconomics, economics at a higher level, above individual markets
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Macromanagement
Macromanagement is a style of leadership that is hands-off or from afar, allowing employees to have more freedom and control over their own work, while employers may shift focus to strategic long-term goals.
Contrary to micromanagement where manag ...
in business, the idea of "managing from afar"
Computing
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Macro (computer science), a set of instructions that is represented in an abbreviated format
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Macro instruction, 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 macro key is a key that was featured on various early PC keyboards and has been removed from most keyboards since. It is typically found on the lower rows of the keyboard, either to the left of the key or to the right of the right . While mo ...
, a key found on some keyboards, particularly older keyboards.
Media and entertainment
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Macromanagement (gameplay), high-level decision making in games
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Macro Recordings, a German electronic music label
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Macro analysis of chords and chord progressions
Other uses
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Macro practice or community practice, a type of social work
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Macrobiotics, a diet and lifestyle based on eating natural, organic food
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Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), Italy
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Cox Macro (1686–1767), English Anglican priest and antiquarian
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Naevius Sutorius Macro (21 BC – 38 AD), praetorian prefect in the Roman Empire
See also
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Makro, a retail brand
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Micro (disambiguation)
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Mikro (disambiguation)
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Large (disambiguation)
Large means of great size.
Large may also refer to:
Mathematics
* Arbitrarily large, a phrase in mathematics
* Large cardinal, a property of certain transfinite numbers
* Large category, a category with a proper class of objects and morphisms (o ...
(''macro'': a Greek prefix meaning long or large)
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List of commonly used taxonomic affixes
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