Taxonomy vs Macro - What's the difference?
taxonomy | macro |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
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 taxonomy and macro
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification 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.taxonomy
English
(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologymacro
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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.