macrocode
English
Alternative forms
- macro code
Pronunciation
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Noun
macrocode (countable and uncountable, plural macrocodes)
- (computing) Code written using macros.
- Any relatively high-level coding system.
- 2004, Phenomenological Inquiry (volumes 28-30, page 122)
- In contrast, authors of junk fiction draw their contents from a repertoire of codified commonplaces that are catachresized in a macrocode of the reader's imagination. The result may seem like fantasy literature, but instead offers just trite factuality […]
- 2004, Phenomenological Inquiry (volumes 28-30, page 122)
Verb
macrocode (third-person singular simple present macrocodes, present participle macrocoding, simple past and past participle macrocoded)
- (transitive) To encode using a relatively high-level coding system.