The difference between Macro and Macro expansion

When used as nouns, macro means a comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program, whereas macro expansion means the source code (assembler or other language) created by interpretation of a macro.

Macro is also adjective with the meaning: very large in scope or scale.

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  1. Macro as an adjective:

    Very large in scope or scale.

  2. Macro as an adjective (cooking, colloquial):

  1. Macro as a noun (colloquial, nutrition, chiefly, in plural):

  1. Macro as a noun (programming):

    A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program.

    Examples:

    "The preprocessor expands any embedded macros into source code before it is compiled."

  1. Macro as a noun (photography):

    macro lens

  1. Macro expansion as a noun (computing):

    The source code (assembler or other language) created by interpretation of a macro

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