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1. Large: macronucleus.
2. Long: macrobiotics.
3. Inclusive: macroinstruction.

[Greek makro-, from makros, large.]

Large. Opposite of micro-. In the mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example, medical people) this competes with the prefix mega-, but hackers tend to restrict the latter to quantification.

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Large-scale. Thus, a macroclimate is the general climate of a region extending across several hundred kilometres, such as the Great Plains of North America, macrometeorology is the study of large-scale meteorological phenomena which can cover hundreds of kilometres or may encompass the whole globe, from monsoons to the general circulation of the atmosphere, and macro-economics is the study of an economy as a whole.

As part of a species name, means “very large,” or at least larger than average. For example, bigleaf magnolia, Magnolia macrophylla, has leaves up to 30 inches long.

Français (French)
pref. - (préf) macro- (dans les composés de macro-) signifiant long/grand

Deutsch (German)
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pref. - macro-

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