Macro : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Macro	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for Macro
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
macro adj very large in scale or scope or capability n a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language Synonym(s): macro, macro instruction
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Macro- \Mac"ro-\ [Gr. makro`s, adj.] A combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
macro /mak'roh/ n. [techspeak] A name (possibly followed by a formal {arg} list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of actual arguments) by a macro expander. This definition can be found in any technical dictionary; what those won't tell you is how the hackish connotations of the term have changed over time. The term `macro' originated in early assemblers, which encouraged the use of macros as a structuring and information-hiding device. During the early 1970s, macro assemblers became ubiquitous, and sometimes quite as powerful and expensive as {HLL}s, only to fall from favor as improving compiler technology marginalized assembler programming (see {languages of choice}). Nowadays the term is most often used in connection with the C preprocessor, LISP, or one of several special-purpose languages built around a macro-expansion facility (such as TeX or Unix's [nt]roff suite). Indeed, the meaning has drifted enough that the collective `macros' is now sometimes used for code in any special-purpose application control language (whether or not the language is actually translated by text expansion), and for macro-like entities such as the `keyboard macros' supported in some text editors (and PC TSR or Macintosh INIT/CDEV keyboard enhancers).
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
macro- pref. 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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
macro- Prefix 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. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
MACRO 1. Assembly language for {VAX/VMS}. 2. {PL/I}-like language with extensions for string processing. "MACRO: A Programming Language", S.R. Greenwood, SIGPLAN Notices 14(9):80-91 (Sep 1979). [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
macro A name (possibly followed by a {formal argument} list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of {actual arguments}) by a macro expander. The term "macro" originated in early {assembler}s, which encouraged the use of macros as a structuring and information-hiding device. During the early 1970s, macro assemblers became ubiquitous, and sometimes quite as powerful and expensive as {HLL}s, only to fall from favour as improving {compiler} technology marginalised {assembly language} programming (see {languages of choice}). Nowadays the term is most often used in connection with the {C preprocessor}, {Lisp}, or one of several special-purpose languages built around a macro-expansion facility (such as {TeX} or {Unix}'s {troff} suite). Indeed, the meaning has drifted enough that the collective "macros" is now sometimes used for code in any special-purpose application control language (whether or not the language is actually translated by text expansion), and for macro-like entities such as the "keyboard macros" supported in some text editors (and {PC} {TSR}s or {Macintosh} INIT/CDEV keyboard enhancers). (1994-12-06)