macro

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language
adjective very large in scale or scope or capability

From macro-, from French, from Latin, ulimately from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós, “long”).

His grandmother Antonia desiring a private conference with him, he refused to grant it, unless Macro, the prefect of the pretorian guards, were present. — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete, Suetonius
There is use, also, of ambitious men, in pulling down the greatness of any subject that overtops; as Tiberius used Macro[403] in the pulling down of Sejanus. — Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients, Francis Bacon
On that mystery and not on the madonna which the cunning Italian intellect flung to the mob of Europe the church is founded and founded irremovably because founded, like the world, macro and microcosm, upon the void. — Ulysses, James Joyce

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