micro
pronunciation
How to pronounce micro in British English:
UK [ˈmaɪkrəʊ]
How to pronounce micro in American English:
US [ˈmaɪkroʊ]
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- Adjective:
- extremely small in scale or scope or capability
Word Origin
- micro
- micro: [19] The conversion of the prefix microinto a noun (standing, for instance, for a microskirt or microcomputer) is not as recent as one might have supposed: as long ago as the 1860s it was being used for a sort of tiny moth (short for microlepidoptera). The prefix itself comes from Greek mīkrós ‘small’, a variant of smīkrós, which may be distantly related to English small.The earliest English word containing it appears to have been microcosm [15], etymologically ‘little world’. From the 17th century come micrometer, microphone, and microscope. Microbe [19] means etymologically ‘little life’ (from Greek bíos ‘life’), hence ‘little creature’.
Example
- 1. These micro blog accounts also have common characteristics .
- 2. It is telling that micro enterprises are common in greece , but rare in germany .
- 3. Micro topics is a relatively new concept in microblogging services , implemented by weibo .
- 4. The micro blog frenzy continues to expand , spreading to the chinese and foreign embassies in china .
- 5. So for the three , can touch kind can bypass , see micro can know the .