MACRO

Macro

A macro in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence should be mapped to a replacement input sequence according to a defined procedure. The mapping process that instantiates a macro use into a specific sequence is known as macro expansion. A facility for writing macros may be provided as part of a software application or as a part of a programming language. In the former case, macros are used to make tasks using the application less repetitive. In the latter case, they are a tool that allows a programmer to enable code reuse or even to design domain-specific languages.

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macro

Noun

  1. A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complicated input to a computer program.
    The pre-processor expands any embedded macros into source code before it is compiled.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. macro lens

Adjective

  1. Very large in scope or scale.


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