Answer by rogermue for Meaning of "meta-"
The Greek preposition meta has a lot of meanings, I would say it has gone wild.Meta- can mean after. Aristotle's metaphysics was a book written after his physics.In metaphysics he dealt with things...
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When meta- is typically prefixed to something being used as a technical term, it roughly means "higher ordered".This means that if there is a sequence which itself contains a sequence, one can talk...
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1.A simple example: I could look at a sequence of numbers and make a new sequence of numbers in which each number is the difference between two consecutive numbers from the first sequence:1, 4, 7, 2...
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StackOverflow has questions about a topic. Meta-StackOverflow has questions about the questions in StackOverflow - for example, "is this question on topic?". X and Meta-X usually have similar...
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I am trying to figure out the meaning of prefix "Meta-" in English.Quoted from WikipediaMeta- (from Greek: μετά = "after","beyond", "with", "adjacent", "self"), is a prefix used in English (and other...
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