Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Very small or microscopic.
- adj. Basic or small-scale: the economy's performance at the micro level.
- n. A microcomputer.
- n. A microprocessor.
- n. A microbrewery.
- n. A microbrew.
Wiktionary
- adj. Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.
- n. computing, dated short form of microcomputer
Etymologies
- From micro-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This is a bit belated, but you can do the symbol(s) for micrometre ( µm ) like this: &_micro_;m (omit the underscores).”
Scientists Find Water Ice Creates the Spokes in Saturn's B Ring | Universe Today
“The term micro-blogging was used because twitter, the first micro-blogging service, at least to my knowledge, defined it that way.”
“In many respects the term micro-blogging is a bit of a misnomer.”
“As publishers experiment with new or revamped online pricing models they may find that the true value of their original content will give real meaning to the term micro-payment.”
“Stations were moved, Population centers grew up around these stations giving rise to the term micro climate ..”
“The WIMM One's default screen is a watch face and what it calls "micro apps" have been specially designed for the 1.4-inch display.”
The Wall Street Journal: Tech Charms: Flying Cameras, Musical Purses
“The CBO spent five years preparing for its outsize role as a scorekeeper in the health-care debate this time around, working on what it calls a micro-simulation of the health-insurance market.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Unhealthy Accounting of Uninsured Americans
“JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, we've learned that Mayor Bloomberg has asked his pollsters and other political advisors to assemble vast data base of information; voter registration, who might vote for an independent, voter trends, what they call micro-targeting in the polling bases.”
“This is what you call micro unmanned aerial vehicle.”
“JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, we have learned that Mayor Bloomberg has asked his pollsters and other political advisers to assemble a vast database of information, voter registration, who might vote for an independent, voter trends, what they call micro-targeting in the political bases.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘micro’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Prefixes
a-, ab, abs, ambi, ante, anti, aqu, aqua, arch, astro, auto, bene and 71 more...
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Multiplier Prefixes
Prefixes used in the international system of units to identify multiples of 1,000
kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta, micro, nano, pico, milli and 12 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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nuwerdna's Words
smegma, defenestration, nubile, zeitgeist, stochastic, ergodic, stability, maudlin, recursion, aversion, agent, set and 239 more...
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WrightHandWords's Words
yclept, unction, prana, satya, abhyasa, vairagya, yoga, ashtanga, acronym, etymology, asana, widget and 286 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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lmaz's list
my first list
swarm, mob, network, synapse, micro, macro, thread, theme, connector, connection, pattern
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lilliput
ladybug, papermite, silverfish, mote, miniscule, micro, protozoa, fragment, ion, proton, neutrino, neutron and 18 more...
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Sociology
sociological imag..., individual, culture, norm, interaction, society, agency, macro, micro, positivism, life chances, structure and 2 more...
Tweets
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