meta-

  1. Prefix.  transcending, encompassing.
  2. Prefix.  Pertaining to a level above or beyond. For example, metadata is data that describes data, metalanguage is language that describes language, etc.
  3. Prefix.  Having analogies with metaphysics.
  4. Prefix.  (pathology) Consequent on.
  5. Prefix.  (anatomy, and) Behind.
  6. Prefix.  (botany, and) Later or subsequent.
  7. Prefix.  (geology) Analogies and derivatives of metamorphism.
  8. Prefix.  (chemistry) Having fewer molecules of water than the ortho- equivalent.
  9. 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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