macrocode

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noun

Code written using macros.

UncommonScrabble 16

Meanings

nounmacrocode (countable and uncountable, plural macrocodes)

plural macrocodes · alternative macro code

  1. countableuncountablecomputingCode written using macros.
  2. countableuncountableAny relatively high-level coding system.

    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
verbmacrocode (third-person singular simple present macrocodes, present participle macrocoding, simple past and past participle macrocoded)

present singular third person macrocodes · participle present macrocoding · participle past macrocoded · past macrocoded · alternative macro code

  1. transitiveTo encode using a relatively high-level coding system.
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APA

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