micro

adj

1. Very small in scale or scope.

   “At the micro level, he was a good manager. At the macro level, he failed.”

   “Financial independence and micro retirement have come to represent the autonomy I've created for myself, which is a powerful feeling.”

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable)Clipping of microwave (“microwave oven”).

   “Just put it in the micro for 30 seconds and it's ready to eat.”

   “Yes. A nutritional dinner that will taste so good it’ll knock your socks off and maybe change your world—or at least your way of eating. I’d have to cook it at your place, though—all I have in my cottage is a hot plate, fridgie and a micro. But I’d provide everything.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable)Clipping of microeconomics.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, dated)Clipping of microcomputer.

   “If you can possibly afford to spend a few more pounds then you should move up into the next price bracket, where the potential of the home micro starts to be realised.”

   “So what sort of hero is this bounding, bomb collecting midget? The answer is an arcade hero - and now he's let loose in your micro courtesy of conversion kings, Elite.”

4. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, uncountable)Clipping of micromanagement.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable)Clipping of macrophile.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable)Clipping of macrophilia.
7. (also, attributive, colloquial, countable)In the context of microphilia, one who is abnormally very small.

verb

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ambitransitive, clipping, slang)Clipping of micromanage.

name

1. A town in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States.