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| :meta: /met*/ or /mayt*/ or (Commonwealth) /meet*/ adj.,/pref./ [from analytic philosophy] One level of description up. A metasyntactic variable is a variable in notation used to describe syntax, and meta-language is language used to describe language. This is difficult to explain briefly, but much hacker humor turns on deliberate confusion between meta-levels. See [[hacker humor]]. | |
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