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/ˈmæk.ɹoʊ/
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/ˈmæk.ɹəʊ/
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Adjective
Very large in scale or scope.
Usage- not-comparable
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Crumb's sexual fixation on gigantic women's legs became a major feature of his most celebrated images. Despite the common themes among macrophiles, Ed Lundt believes that no two macro fantasies are quite alike […]
But simply turning off iCloud backups was an incomplete solution. The macro problem, I wrote in my column last year, is that people have sacrificed ownership and control of their data.
Noun
In the context of macrophilia, one who is abnormally very large.
Usage- also
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Noun
A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program.
Usage- attributive
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The preprocessor expands any embedded macros into source code before it is compiled.
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There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.
A recurring theme in this book is to record an Excel macro and then show how to adapt the recorded code.
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Languages belonging to the Lisp family make use of macros to provide support for compile-time metaprogramming.
This should make intuitive sense because the purpose of the macro system is to transform code from one valid form to a final form, such as inserting logic automatically that would otherwise have been written explicitly.
Verb
To use a macro.
Usage- Informal
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After i got ressirected^([sic]) the stat loss hit me hard, i macroed for a few days, sparred with some friends, and my skills were soon back up.
Do this poison thing gradually increasing potency until you hit about 78 then macro on a ghost to GM
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Ok, i have to admit i macroed for 3 lvls to get my magic defence sorted :(
To use a macro on (something).
Usage- Informal
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He said he macroed anatomy from 0 to about 80 and his healing went from the 52 he started with to 58.2.
For that matter, you can do something by killing the character being macroed. :) It IS Darktide after all.
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Same here, macroed my really gimp CH, none of the others.
Adjective
very large in scale or scope or capability
Noun
a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language
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