| 1. | (language) | META - The assembly language for the CYBER 200,
developed at CDC ca 1977. [CDC Pub 60256020]. | |
| 2. | (philosophy) | meta - /me't*/ or /may't*/ or (Commonwealth) /mee't*/ A
prefix meaning one level of description higher. If X is some
concept then meta-X is data about, or processes operating on,
X. For example, a metasyntax is syntax for specifying syntax, metalanguage is a language used to discuss language, meta-data is data about data, and meta-reasoning is reasoning about reasoning. This is difficult to explain briefly, but much hacker humour turns on deliberate confusion between meta-levels. |
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