meta-
- Prefix. transcending, encompassing.
- Prefix. Pertaining to a level above or beyond. For example, metadata is data that describes data, metalanguage is language that describes language, etc.
- Prefix. Having analogies with metaphysics.
- Prefix. (pathology) Consequent on.
- Prefix. (anatomy, and) Behind.
- Prefix. (botany, and) Later or subsequent.
- Prefix. (geology) Analogies and derivatives of metamorphism.
- Prefix. (chemistry) Having fewer molecules of water than the ortho- equivalent.
- Prefix. (chemistry) in isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in alternate positions; (non-gloss definition, contrasted with ortho- and para-) .
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