microとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From micro-, typically as shortened forms for modern words formed with the prefix, ultimately from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊ/
• 韻: -aɪkɹəʊ
• ハイフネーション: mi‧cro
• Homophone: Micro

形容詞

micro (comparative more micro, superlative most micro)

1. Very small in scale or scope.

   Antonym: macro

   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.

派生語

名詞

micro (countable and uncountable, plural micros or microes)

1. (countable, 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. (uncountable, economics, colloquial) Clipping of microeconomics.

   Coordinate term: macro

3. (countable, computing, dated) Clipping 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.

   • 1986-05, Rachael Smith, “Bomb Jack”, in Your Sinclair, number 5 (video game review):

     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. (uncountable, gaming, slang) Clipping of micromanagement.

   Coordinate term: macro

5. (countable, paraphilia, colloquial) Clipping of macrophile.

   Coordinate term: macro

6. (uncountable, paraphilia, colloquial) Clipping of macrophilia.

   Coordinate term: macro

7. (countable, paraphilia, colloquial, also attributive) In the context of microphilia, one who is abnormally very small.

   Synonym: tiny (noun)

   Coordinate terms: macro; giant, giantess

派生語

動詞

micro (third-person singular simple present micros or microes, present participle microing or micro'ing, simple past and past participle microed or microd or micro'ed or micro'd)

1. (ambitransitive, gaming, slang) Clipping of micromanage.

   Coordinate term: macro

参考

• giga
• nano

アナグラム

• Romic, cormi, crimo, moric