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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
micro
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
micro scooter
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
level
▪ This focus on the micro level of social or community structure discourages stereotypical generalisations.
▪ We also learned to refocus the lens to the micro level, looking very closely at a single work, poetry especially.
▪ Currently the Centre is studying wage determination at a more micro level.
■ VERB
use
▪ In industry and science, process control and equipment monitoring can be far more reliable and effective using a micro.
▪ The spans keep in line by using a simple micro switch system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Finally, there's the Acorn Archimedes A3000, which is by far the most powerful home micro available.
▪ Generally speaking, intermolecular forces and the micro structures of the shell material itself have very little influence on overall shell shape.
▪ I got eighty hours of micro and macro economics.
▪ Quantification procedures for micro and trace analysis as well as for surface and thin film analysis are summarized.
▪ Second, games cost much more than those for 8-bit home micros.
▪ The other end of the scale - micros - can also be ruled out.
▪ This is reflected in the enormous growth of micro usage in these areas and especially in the field of robotics.
▪ This was perhaps due to the improved micro code and hardware layout claimed for the RapidCad.
Wiktionary
micro

Etymology 1

  1. small, relatively small; (non-gloss definition: used to contrast levels of the noun modified). Etymology 2

    n. (context computing dated English) (form of short form microcomputer English) Etymology 3

    n. (lb en gaming slang) micromanagement v

  2. (lb en gaming slang) to micromanage

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WordNet
micro

adj. extremely small in scale or scope or capability

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Gazetteer
Micro, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 454
Housing Units (2000): 225
Land area (2000): 0.407229 sq. miles (1.054718 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.407229 sq. miles (1.054718 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42620
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.562802 N, 78.203882 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Micro, NC
Micro
Wikipedia
Micro

Micro or Mikro, from the Greek (), means "small". It can be used to indicate a smaller than average scale ( microscopic scale), as opposed to prefixes mega and macro, which can be used to indicate a larger than average scale.

Micro may refer to:

  • micro- (µ) a prefix in the SI and other systems of units denoting a factor of 10 (one millionth)
  • MICRO Relational Database Management System, an early set-theoretic database management system
  • Micro programming language, a simple programming language used in teaching compiler construction techniques
  • Micro, a mostly-obsolete term for a microcomputer
  • Micro cell, a common AAA-sized battery
  • Micro (Thai band), a Thai rock band
  • Micro (car), the first car company from Sri Lanka
  • Micro (novel), a novel written by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston
  • Micro (wrestler), a Japanese professional wrestler
  • Micro, North Carolina
  • Mikro (Greek band), a Greek electronic music group
  • International Symposium on Microarchitecture, one of the most important academic conferences on computer architecture
Micro (Thai band)

Micro were a Thai rock band formed in 1983 in Bangkok, Thailand. They signed to the GMM Grammy. the group has released a six studio albums.

Micro (novel)

Micro, a techno-thriller published posthumously in 2011, is Michael Crichton's final novel. Upon his death in 2008, an untitled, unfinished manuscript was found on his computer, which would become Micro and complete his two-book deal with publisher HarperCollins. HarperCollins chose science writer Richard Preston to complete the novel from Crichton's remaining notes and research, and it was finally published in 2011. Micro is Crichton's second posthumous novel; Pirate Latitudes, a historical thriller, was also found on his computer and published posthumously in 2009.

Usage examples of "micro".

There was really no indication of a micro adenoma from those numbers, she said, not enough to even warrant doing an MRI, although, again, I could talk over treatment with my doctor.

Up from Eden and The Atman project are two books that cover the micro and macro branch of human evolution in, respectively, phylogeny and ontogeny.

He placed micro nerve stimulators on both phrenic nerves to stimulate the diaphragm for breathing, and carefully sewed them together.

The micro fragments from the firecracker round had cleared the crest and face of the ridge, but a Molt somewhere out there, far from the immediate battle scene, continued to snipe at the jeep undeterred.

A Newell micro reel for panfish and a split datura wood flyrod, hand made by Red Alcott on Sankor for Pike.

I got a pollo alla cacciatore from the freezer and slammed it into the micro.

Next day Daisy cashed the Micro check for ten hundred aluminum-bronze pseudo-silver smackers, which she hid in a broken radionic coffee urn.

Micro became less severe, and there were extended stretches of relatively unagitated flight.

Since the Micro had already docked successfully at both Moonbase and L1, Bigfoot knew there was no risk bringing it directly back.

Underneath, sunk in the floor, and most of them covered with chicken wire, there were tray upon tray swarming and heaving with worms and baits: white worms, micro worms, Daphnia, shrimp, and thick slimy clam worms.

And, as we will see throughout this book, same-level relational exchange does not mean that the micro exchanges with a pregiven macro: they co-create each other in emergent worldspaces.

Claude Majewski specializing in macrofossils and Genevieve Logan in micros.

The electrolytes and micro machines seemed to ease the storms of pain going through its guts.

The Micro needed two-point-four kps to avoid falling back to the surface.

It consisted of a metal wand, wire, and a case with 20 lbs of batteries and a micro ammeter that was useless in the middle of a herd in the dark.