Why is it called "microwave"?

I have been wondering for a while why microwave radiation, whose
wavelength is in the range of centimeters, is called "microwave".
Shorter wavelengths are millimeter waves, longer ones are shortwave...
Radiation in micron wavelength (which I thought was the microwave
range before I started studying it a bit) is roughly IR...

Can someone tell me?
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