Definition of "macro-" []

• Large: macronucleus. (prefix)
• Long: macrobiotics. (prefix)
• Inclusive: macroinstruction. (prefix)

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• "That the U.K. economy needed to be restructured was evident in both macro- and industry-level data even before the financial crisis."
• "Even though this frenzied buzz of activity is managed at a macro- or system- scale by key-role organs, including our brain, it always relies on the rules of physics and chemistry, which are coded within these biomolecules, that apply at the nanoscale."
• "There has always been varying levels of stress in the world on both the micro- and macro- scales, but I would venture to say that it may be occurring at several notches above the usual what has been historically known."