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the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching; overall organizational scheme, as of a complex piece of writing; any overall structure, as a gross anatomical part

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  • Another area that requires further work is the macro-structure of ministries, portfolios and departments, which have not been fundamentally altered during the era of...
  • Each bird simply adapts to its local environment and path of least effort, with some innate sense of hierarchy for the lead bird, and what emerges is a macro-structure...
  • For me recently it has been a postmodern, post-critical approach to the macro-structure of the book of Jeremiah (although I hesitate saying that here, not knowin the...
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