U vs Micro - What's the difference?
u | micro |
The twenty-first letter of the .
symbol for unified atomic mass unit
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(label) up quark
Image:Latin U.png, Capital and lowercase versions of U , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter U.png, Uppercase and lowercase U in Fraktur
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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 a letter u
is the letter u with an acute accent.As a proper noun micro is
a town in north carolina.u
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=t, next=v, image=Etymology 1
Minuscule variation of U, a modern variation of classical Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter .Letter
Etymology 2
Symbol
(head)See also
{{Letter , page=U , NATO=Uniform , Morse=··– , Character=U , Braille=? }}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.
