Meta vs Micro - What's the difference?
meta | micro |
(informal) Self-referential; at a higher level
* {{quote-book, 2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity
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* {{quote-book, 2006, Brendan Vaughan, What Would MacGyver Do?
, passage=Besides, I can just hear Vaughan: "Very funny, Stacey, very Charlie Kaufman-esque, very meta , very '97. I can't use it." }}
Small, relatively small; (used to contrast levels of the noun modified).
(computing, dated)
* 1984 , Mike Gerrard, Bryan Skinner, Mr Chips comes home: micros and home education (page 23)
* 1986 , Rachael Smith, Bomb Jack'' (video game review) in ''Your Sinclair issue 5, May 1986
(lb) micromanagement
(lb) to micromanage
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As adjectives the difference between meta and micro
is that meta is self-referential; at a higher level while micro is small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.As nouns the difference between meta and micro
is that meta is boundary marker while micro is form of microcomputer|lang=en.As a verb micro is
to micromanage.As a proper noun Micro is
a town in North Carolina.meta
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* ----micro
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)- At the micro level he was a good manager. At the macro level he failed.
Antonyms
* macroEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- If you can possibly afford to spend a few more pounds then you should move up into the next price bracket, where the potential of the home micro starts to be realised.
- So what sort of hero is this bounding, bomb collecting midget? The answer is an arcade hero - and now he's let loose in your micro courtesy of conversion kings, Elite.
