Treatment of Cross-eyed: For more treatment information about Cross-eyed, see treatment of Squint (Cross-eyed).
It can be used to indicate a smaller than average scale (microscopic scale), as opposed to prefixes mega and macro, which can be used to indicate a larger than average scale. Micro may refer to: 1  micro- (Âµ) a prefix in the SI and other systems of units denoting a factor of 10 â6 (one millionth). 2  MICRO Information Management System, an early set-theoretic database management system. 3  Micro programming language, a simple programming language used in teaching compiler construction techniques.
The story of milli and micro. Powers of ten and unit prefixes -- 11 October, 2001. As societies grew (bearing in mind that communication was once slow and tedious), different people in different places invented units of measure in forms and scales on an ad hoc basis as convenient to their daily lives.