microとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊ/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəʊ/

形容詞

micro (comparative more micro, superlative most micro)

1. Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.

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

   • 2025 May 26, Joshua Nelken-Zitser, “I 'micro-retired' in my 30s by investing every dollar from my side income. It sounds almost too simple to be true, but it works.”, in Business Insider‎:

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

反意語

• macro

派生語

名詞

micro (countable and uncountable, plural micros)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of microwave (“microwave oven”).

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

   • 2013, Susan Andersen, chapter 14, in Some Like it Hot, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin HQN, →ISBN, page 177:

     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. (colloquial, economics, uncountable) Clipping of microeconomics.
3. (computing, dated, countable) short form of microcomputer
   • 1984, Mike Gerrard, Bryan Skinner, Mr Chips comes home: micros and home education, page 23:

     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.

   • 1986, Rachael Smith, Bomb Jack (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 5, May 1986

     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. (gaming, slang, uncountable) Micromanagement.
5. (paraphilia) A very small person, in the context of microphilia or macrophilia.

派生語

• (microcomputer): micromania

動詞

micro (third-person singular simple present micros or microes, present participle microing, simple past and past participle microed)

1. (gaming, slang) to micromanage

参考

• micro org

アナグラム

• Romic, cormi, crimo, moric