Boundary marker.
Used in a Sentence
meta
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for meta.
Editorial note
I long for a software that lets me mix logic and usual programming seamlessly, without unnecessary like meta-theories, meta-logic.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
Boundary marker.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of meta gathered in one view.
A city in Osage County, Missouri.
(by extension, countable, Internet slang) An informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for meta.
noun
Boundary marker.
noun
A city in Osage County, Missouri.
noun
(by extension, countable, Internet slang) An informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.
noun
(historical) Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.
Example sentences
I long for a software that lets me mix logic and usual programming seamlessly, without unnecessary like meta-theories, meta-logic.
Flaw in that you can match songs you down own or that the meta data might be wrong?
It doesn't not check for changes in a secure way, but assumes that, as long as the meta-data for the file matches, the content is as you left it.
The fun part is when the google pagespeed tool starts nagging about google's own resources (fonts, analytics etc.) -- so meta.
Instead of refactoring a DRY problem by using code generation, you solve it with meta-code.
Transformations for specific systems are encoded as meta transforms that operate on base program.
After all, Skolem's paradox says that, meta-theoretically, we could have countable models of the classical real numbers as well.
It makes a nice meta-point about communities (that has been mentioned before), which is that they have a strong need to be ideologically homogenous.
You can meta-program your way out of any code generation requirement.
So, my concept was to use something like Racket Scheme for meta while building a mockup of constructs of imperative language (Wirth's, Go, or C).
Articles about derivation of quines and fixed points often start with their infinite expansion nature, and then imagine a way to build a meta level replicator.
Code generation is a form of meta-programming and abstraction.
Quote examples
The FlatBuffers repo on github continues a couple of "meta-trends" I've noticed in recent Google projects.
From a meta-theoretic perspective, it is obvious (as we are working in constructive mathematics) that every real number is in some sense "computable".
At the meta-level, downvoted humor is invariably followed by "why all the downvotes, lighten up" driving any hope of anyone learning anything about anything other than the way HN tends to work further into the weeds with a pitcher of hurt feelings.
Pulling three quotes from it, "controlled trials failed to show any benefit from NLP", "Numerous literature reviews and meta-analyses have failed to show evidence for NLP's assumptions or effectiveness as a therapeutic method", and "Among the reasons for considering NLP a pseudoscience are that evidence in favor of it is limited to anecdotes and personal testimony".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use meta in a sentence?
I long for a software that lets me mix logic and usual programming seamlessly, without unnecessary like meta-theories, meta-logic.
What does meta mean?
Boundary marker.
What part of speech is meta?
meta is commonly used as noun.