The Collaborative International Dictionary
Macro-
Macro- \Mac"ro-\pref. [Gr. makro`s, adj.] A combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore, macromolecule, macrocosm.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
macro-
word-forming element meaning "long, abnormally large, on a large scale," taken into English via Middle French and Medieval Latin from Greek makros "long, large," from PIE root *mak- "long, thin" (cognates: Latin macer "lean, thin;" Old Norse magr, Old English mæger "lean, thin;" Greek mekos "length").
Wiktionary
macro-
pre. 1 large 2 long 3 inclusive
Usage examples of "macro-".
Evolution acts in the sense of simultaneous and interdependent structuration of the macro- and the micro-world.
The history of life on earth expresses the coevolution of self-organizing macro- and microsystems in ever-higher degrees of differentiation.