macro-
MEASURES
1,000,000th of the stated unit:
a microsecond
micro
noun[ C ]
 old-fashioneduk /ˈmaɪkrəʊ/uspluralmicros
IT
→ microcomputer
micro
adjective
uk /ˈmaɪkrəʊ/us
very small, or at the lowest level:
The program helps to support or set up banks lending to micro enterprises and small business.
The company has a 20% share in the market for mini or micro cars.
These matters are decided at the micro level of individual firms.

Examples of micro

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This relatively new area of investigation, requiring the impregnation of thin sections, stresses the importance of micro-textures, micro-structures and post-depositional changes.
Such micro-organisms might not only have survived, but gone on to evolve their own independent, interlocking ecological system of predator-prey relations.
Thus, a first step requires organizational and technical support to scavenging activity through the formation of cooperative societies or micro-enterprises.
The period saw the radical separation of micro- and macro-economics (a separation denoted, paradoxically, as a 'neoclassical synthesis').
It is possible to do this from the micro scale of sound synthesis through to the macro scale of the structural model of the piece.
They are already used frequently in structural analysis, for example to detect micro- or nanoscale defects.
Their discipline has been sufficient to cause pain at the micro level of everyday life for the children.
An increase in soil micro-ora linked to the introduction of cacao trees leads to corresponding fertilizer savings.
Each macrooption can be realized by various micro-options.
The reason for more small and medium enterprises to report loss of assets is because these firms are relatively more asset rich than micro enterprises.
Such an approach would be an important step in improving the overall use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and curtailing the development of resistant micro-organisms.
The selection procedure followed a two stage sampling for micro enterprises.
Digitally integrating the visual and aural domains is now possible on the micro-(sample, pixel) as well as macro-(gestural) compositional levels.
For laser anemometry, a 'micro-fog lubricator' was used to atomize oil particles of approximately 2pm diameter.
Although some micro economic reforms have clearly taken place, the authors acknowledge that much change is more apparent than real.
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