Mega vs Macro - What's the difference?
mega | macro |
(informal) Very large.
* 2004 , Nigel Coates, Collidoscope: new interior design (page 26)
great; excellent
* 1998 , John Barwick, Targeting Text (page 25)
Very large in scope or scale.
(programming, computing) A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complicated input to a computer program.
As adjectives the difference between mega and macro
is that mega is very large while macro is very large in scope or scale.As a noun macro is
a comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complicated input to a computer program.mega
English
Adjective
(-)- Follow those in the know to the fifth floor of Sega's Joy Polis, a mega indoor amusement park that's part of the Odaiba Decks Tokyo Bay entertainment complex near Tange's Fuji Television building.
- We had a mega time until Peter fell in the fish pond and cut his leg.
Anagrams
* * ----macro
English
Etymology 1
1933, from .Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
1959, shortened form of macroinstruction.Noun
(en noun)- The pre-processor expands any embedded macro s into source code before it is compiled.