Monad vs Macro - What's the difference?
monad | macro |
An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
(mathematics, computing) A monoid in the category of endofunctors.
A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.
Very large in scope or scale.
(programming, computing) A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complicated input to a computer program.
As nouns the difference between monad and macro
is that monad is an ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible while macro is (programming|computing) a comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complicated input to a computer program or macro can be (photography) macro lens.As an adjective macro is
very large in scope or scale.monad
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Noun
(en noun)See also
* ("monad" on Wikipedia) * dyad * triadAnagrams
*macro
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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.